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...often does; and he is so stupid he can never figure out what for." She confides Ed's gaffes to her best friend Marylynne, who giggles with her. Sally improves her mind by taking up gourmet cooking, medieval history and anthropology. Ed is unimpressed; he prefers meat loaf to sweetbreads with pine nuts, and working in the yard to scholarly pastimes. Atwood builds the case for Ed's "endearing thickness" so cannily that it almost seems true. But, as it turns out, Sally is really the dumb one: Ed's seeming obtuseness is only his shield against her disdain. Sally...
...catholic taste, an attribute immediately apparent in John Clancy's Favorite Recipes -- A Personal Cookbook (Atheneum; $21.95). In a book well suited to the relatively inexperienced cook, he includes such simple, solid fare as hamburgers, braised shoulder of lamb, German vegetable beef soup and French crullers. He gives meat loaf some style by way of jalapeno peppers, tenderizes and flavors broiled duck with a ginger-and-wine-vinegar marinade and imparts a herbaceous Provence fragrance to the lowly blowfish. Clams in black bean sauce, beef stew in a pumpkin, and mousse of sea scallops are among the showier offerings. Seafood...
...someone says "Where's it at?" it is as if a counterfeit dollar enters the nation's money supply. Gradually, people lose faith in the currency until it is as worthless as the German mark in the '30s. When it takes a wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread, the monetary system is no longer useful as a standard for trade. When "don't" follows "he" and "doesn't" follows "I," language is no longer a useful standard for communication...
...House Speaker Tip O'Neill offering to impose some measures in an Executive Order. The proposal included bans on the import of iron and steel but omitted coal and other important items, like the cancellation of airport landing rights. Congress was in no mood to settle for half a loaf. Reagan's offer, said a Lugar aide, was "a day late and a dollar short...
...most middle-class Egyptians, subsidies are a welcome but nonessential financial cushion. A rent-controlled three-bedroom apartment in Cairo, for example, can cost as little as $3.74 a month. Telephone service costs 2 cents or 3 cents a call. The subsidized price of a large loaf of bread is about 2 cents. But for the majority of Egyptians, whose per capita income is $600 a year, subsidies are just enough to keep them from penury. Last February national security police rioted after the rumor spread that their hitch would be extended from three years to four. Reason: the conscripts...