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...place setting with an array of cutlery. The fish fork, I learn, is the one with ornate tines--smaller than the main-course fork--meant to debone fish. Here comes another list of rules for me to memorize: When you excuse yourself from the table midmeal, refold your napkin and put it on your chair. When you leave the table for good, put your napkin, neatly folded, to the right of your plate. And if you don't like the food, eat it anyway. Says Von Sperling: "I'm not going to blow a million-dollar deal by offending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners Matters | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...become bored with her husband and feels parched for romance. Fanny Clavering, a suburban English housewife, will do nicely. One evening Fanny goes to a dinner party in honor of the members of a film company who have been shooting a picture on location in the village. In midmeal the film's darkly brooding director, Rob Quillet, leans across the table and murmurs, "Is there a rose named Fanny Clavering? If there isn't, there ought to be." Fanny's tinderdry heart goes up in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Rose Named Fanny | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

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