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...title story, the tale of taste, a couple who are in an erotic "phase of rarefaction" are vacationing in Mexico. They find a new mode of communication through their experience of the fiery local cuisine. Its spiciness, they find, derives from the seasoning used by the early Indians of the region for human sacrifices. After this revelation, the couple's own dining becomes a kind of sacrament, the food of each becoming the substance of the other...
...slice of - chocolate layer cake is really a reward for jogging those extra two miles in the morning. A towering wedge of vanilla-scented cheesecake, laden with calories, is no more than fair compensation for eating only salad or fish for lunch. And warm apple pie a la mode is not the obvious self-indulgence it once was, but a vital, midday energy booster for a deserving workaholic. Whatever the reasons (or sweet excuses), desserts are back in style with a vengeance, in restaurants and bakeries, even as diet-obsessed Americans vow to cut their calories and cholesterol levels...
...Possible, says Callenbach, when people have freed themselves from large corporations and from cars and TV -- what he * calls "isolating technologies." Americans, he complains, have become a nation of emotionally detached creatures. "Humans like to play and mess around, and yet we are trying to live in the lockstep mode of modern society. No other species would put up with having to sit at a desk all day. And yet here we are trying to live according to bizarre economic and institutional social rules that seem to contradict our species nature...
...carried Poussin studies well beyond the point at which they were left at the death of Anthony Blunt. It will not travel to any other museums. And it is a wonderful show, bound to correct whatever stereotypes one may have about Poussin the cold, the correct, the theoretician of mode and decorum...
...fact, the emphasis on this crime and killing mode of historical analysis, Frye believes, is the root of many problems in the Middle East today...