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Unlike its avian peers, the ostrich spawns a variety of luxury products. Start with the meat, which aficionados liken in taste to beef tenderloin. At about $20 per lb., there's a wealth of cuts to be had from the average 400-lb. bird. Ostrich meat is healthful as well: half the calories of beef, one- seventh the fat and considerably less cholesterol, and it even bests chicken and turkey in those categories. Huntington's, a posh eatery in Dallas' Galleria, serves, among other ostrich specialties, a blackened fillet, an ostrich tortilla pizza and a hibiscus-smoked ostrich salad...
...Mackintosh and his colleagues soft-pedal relevance and liken the show to West Side Story, another classic of thwarted love retold in a modern setting. Says director Nicholas Hytner: "This piece has no political sophistication -- operas never do. Music plays to the heart. It asks an audience to understand that every massive world event has an effect on small people." Mackintosh concedes that some 10 minutes have been cut from the London version but rejects claims that the show has been muted politically. "Half of that," he says, "was scene-change music that was no longer needed because this stage...
Most explanations of that phenomenon liken the sun to a dynamo. Mighty currents of electricity flowing in the solar interior generate magnetic-field lines that, like the earth's, tend to be oriented in a north-south direction. But because the sun, unlike the earth, is gaseous, it does not rotate uniformly: bands of gases around the equator circle the solar axis once every 27 days, compared with a 34-day rotation rate near the poles...
Polsky: "I liken our quoting abilities to the relative arborous abilities of the lemur and the dromedary. If it ever came down to a contest of branch swinging, the dromedary would soon find itself succumbing to gravity. Jim has a real talent but he must learn how to channel his energy...
First, responsible criticism knocks the wind out of irresponsible criticism, especially those who liken Israeli soldiers shooting back at rock-throwing Palestinians to Nazis in extermination camps. Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the New Republic, suggests that those who wield corrupt analogies of Jews to Nazis seek to expel the Holocaust from memory by diminishing its significance. That alone would justify our straight talk...