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...street, in their patched, tatterdemalion clothes, and got them into the studio for a few coppers. In his early Roman allegories of the five senses, The Sense of Smell is a beggar holding up not the flower that was usual in versions of this common subject, but a cut onion, so that tears trickle from his eyes. Touch, very movingly, is a blind man feeling out the broken nose of a classical marble head, which he can just apprehend by touch, while on the table in front of him lies a painted portrait that he will never see or apprehend...
Tourists, too, know of the Harvard Square legend. "I get people in here from Montana who'll take onion rings home with them," Joe says...
...interviews into this dismal tale, and she offers her readers some delicious tidbits: Ann in India, ready to stalk tigers in 120 degrees weather, appearing in a wool hunting outfit lined with chinchilla. At a dinner honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a footman passes potato chips and onion dip with the cocktails. Unfortunately, Braudy's arsenal of adjectives is limited. Families tend to be "wealthy," living in "opulent homes." And there are some unfiltered howlers -- the Duke of "Marlboro," for one. After a while, without the leavening of irony, one begins, intensely, not to care...
Instead, I was indoors watching television. I hate prime time television; "Thursdays at 8" is meaningless in my vocabulary. But this was late-night television, and as I soon realized, it is oh-so-much worse. Eating ten slices of sausage and onion pizza with extra garlic would have given me pleasant dreams compared to the nightmares I had from the sludge that Gilbert Godfried, host of USA network's "Up All Night," force-fed me. Okay, I wasn't exactly force-fed. I could've gone to bed or read a book or taken a walk, but I didn...
...French onion soup...