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...make for Fred's, a transport cafe in the East End docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from 1977 to 1985, must never have spent a weekend at home. Besides a journalist's curiosity and a practiced eye for the pleasures of life, he has a knack...
...join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as a Fodor's guidebook opened to the page on Suriname...
...ever describe adequately the unearthly peace of Pagan and its 2,200 pagodas, and maybe that's why everybody uses the guidebook phrase about "the pagoda-studded plain..." The village has just one paved road, but everywhere you look is a white spire or a crumbling red-brick bell, completely silent but for the occasional children running out from among the weeds calling "Peace! Peace!" and holding up two fingers in a peace sign. That and "Rambo!" seem to be universal...
...average of 1,500 requests for seats are refused daily. Soltner's skill in preparing the mix of French dishes Lutece is known for has won him every major award accorded to chefs in his native France, as well as top ratings from virtually every food critic and restaurant guidebook...
...performances a step-by-step analysis tinctured with autobiography: "What's all this talk about me being teamed with Ginger Rogers?" the star asks his agent in 1934. "I will not have it." There is no substitute for seeing the fabulous originals, but this fond retrospective is an invaluable guidebook to the heights of Hollywood musicals. "I always need a lot of convincing about the acceptance of my work," Astaire once said. This should...