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...picked out what I really needed, mostly reference works like the Larousse Gastronomique and specialty volumes such as those on Russian and Moroccan cooking. I kept only those I considered serious source materials by able, trustworthy people like Jim Beard--I was very fond of him--Marcella Hazan and Lydia Bastianich. Then, of course, I kept all my own books and those by my French colleague Simone Beck, who died in 1987. They made me think of her and some of our wonderful meals together--like one Christmas dinner at her house in the South of France. We went into...
UMass junior Lydia Robinson knotted the score at 12:25 with the first of her career-high four goals on the day. However, Harvard sophomore midfielder Jen Brooks put her team back on top three minutes later on an assist from junior Leslie Moroz...
...Frode Andresen, "is the two disciplines that meet in hell, because it is at one extreme mental and at the other extreme physical." Only two other athletes, both speed skaters, have won four gold medals at one Winter Olympics. American Erik Heiden took five in 1980 and Russia's Lydia Skoblikova won four in 1964. After the relay Bjorndalen was quietly matter-of-fact about his achievement. "I made four good races," he said, "and won four golds. I don't think about history. We just...
...Some of Lydia Davis' stories are shorter than this review, but they are funnier, smarter, and will prove more memorable. In deadpan prose, Davis turns philosophical snippets into fiction, with moving results. It is rare for a writer to challenge the tradition of storytelling and still be a pleasure to read. Davis' stories are as clear as children's books and somehow inevitable, as if she has written down what we were all on the verge of thinking ourselves...
...Gore, are your ears burning?) Why are men becoming so open? In a way, they're not. Bickford and Baines were created by women (just as men created Mary, Ally, Maude et al.), and like many "relationship" dramas they're expected to draw female viewers in particular. Baines creator Lydia Woodward believes the story transcends Mars-Venus issues, but says, "A man's emotional life is every bit as interesting as a woman's. Why not go there...