Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anne Rosenzweig, the inventive and talented chef who is part owner of the Manhattan restaurant Arcadia, is shy and diffident in the dining room, but given the consistent excellence of her food, she must have an iron will in the kitchen. The new American dishes served at her small and sophisticated restaurant are at once surprising yet comfortably familiar in taste. Now she and the artist Paul Davis, who painted the impressionistic seasonal mural that wraps around the walls of the restaurant, have put together a tiny, precise and endearing conceit: The Arcadia Seasonal Mural and Cookbook (Abrams; $14.95). This...
...exploit new food supplies, and then began migrating to survive the winter. How the butterflies find their winter hideouts is a conundrum as well. An intriguing theory suggests that, like certain species of birds, the monarchs may respond to the earth's magnetism: the Mexican hideaways surround a large iron-ore deposit, which creates a powerful magnetic field...
...called him. But his bland appearance, which led one British diplomat to compare him to a "refrigerator when the lights have gone out," was deceptive. In a political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death at age 96, the loyal lieutenant and unquestioning henchman of Joseph Stalin had managed to hold out long enough to enjoy a bittersweet official rehabilitation in 1984 as one of the last survivors...
...strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze...
Cocaine has given Starr's brown landscape a dash of affluence. Ornate brick homes protected by iron fences and snarling Rottweilers are popping up along U.S. 83. Investigators say that Colombian operators are paying the mafiosos huge sums to fly drug loads north from makeshift strips. The border patrol has arrested 1,437 Colombian illegals in the valley this year...