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...hard to disguise how man-made they are. To put the argument in familiar and somewhat simplified historical terms, on one side are the supremely rational (and unashamedly artificial) boulevards of André Le Nôtre's design for the Gardens of Versailles, with their long Baroque vistas and knife-edge perpendiculars. On the other side are the parks and estates of Lancelot (Capability) Brown, the 18th century English landscape designer whose gently (and shrewdly) idealized version of nature, with its faux-pastoral scenic effects, all those rolling mounds and little groves, was an important inspiration for Frederick Law Olmsted...
...Sperling teaches me formal Continental-style dining, in which you don't shift your fork to your right hand after cutting. "Most people don't know how to hold the knife and fork correctly. It amazes me how few people actually know this," she says as she demonstrates. "But what if someone says, 'Lady, we're Americans. Why do we need to ape the Europeans?'" I ask her. She looks bruised, and I wonder if she's going to cry. "I don't make up the rules. I just pass them along," she says. "I truly believe that without these...
...That's when the darker dramatics start to seep in. Blair suddenly goes all Lady Macbeth, washing his hands obsessively, having psychotic visions of a Union Jack-draped coffin on the kitchen table, a knife-wielding Arab assassin, a dead Iraqi child. Instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of skewering a politician, we're suddenly asked to sympathize with a man whose honest intentions have been cruelly scuppered by fate and faithless friends...
...passing the bicycle racks between Widener and Wigglesworth, the victim said, one of the men came from behind and put his arms around his shoulders and neck. At the same time, the other man punched him on the head and displayed a knife, according to a community advisory sent out by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
...knife was at least eight inches long,†the victim wrote. “And there happened to be no people around when it happened...