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...prized by connoisseurs, as is whale sashimi, which is eaten with grated ginger or garlic to mask the odor. "I've had the meat," says Miki Ikari, 30, an account manager in Tokyo, "and I wasn't impressed. It could disappear from the earth, and I wouldn't miss...
Black Swan Green proceeds (more in the manner of a scrapbook than a thriller) through the seasons of the year, and then, exactly at the midpoint of the novel, Jason stumbles upon an exotic old lady--a Belgian Miss Havisham--who throws open the doors on an alien world of poetry and music and Continental panache (everything forbidden to an English boy). Madame Crommelynck also starts to comment on what we have been reading, asserting that "Beautiful words ruin your poetry" and "A poet throws all but truth in the cellar." Suddenly, as in the works of Thomas Pynchon...
...whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
...going to greatly miss Professor Buck,” Brandt said. “I think the department has a great reputation for mentoring students and Peter Buck really set that as a priority...
...list this song, which contains nothing more controversial than Jagger’s plaintive “Still I’m gonna miss you”? Seems as appropriate a response as any. Did the hijackers perhaps wolf down some hastily-microwaved BBQ ribs at everyone’s third-favorite chain restaurant—after Outback and Fuddrucker’s—before boarding those fateful flights...