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...unhappily reflected in her style, which might charitably be called uneven; that is, it goes from bad to worse. Gray is by turns breathy and didactic. The effect of an occasional lovely image is immediately obliterated by platitudes. The light in northern France is like "the gleam on a pear," but Gray can't just leave it at that: "all seems spun in webs of fragile silver," and on and on. Lovers and Tyrants is relentlessly overwritten; Gray leaves no noun unmodified in her search to recapture the past. She never settles for one evocative detail when a page-long...
...develop chemical controls. During the late Middle Ages, people attempted to control tree-destroying insects by exposing the roots of afflicted trees, pouring in old wine lees and then closing the hole. Infusions of tobacco were used in France as early as 1690 to fight lace bugs on pear trees. Pyrethrum, a compound obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during the 19th century, and one?Paris green?was used against...
...blanquette contains 280 calories per serving, v. Mother's 1,000. A typical 500-calorie menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk-fed lamb cooked in wild hay, apple surprise, eggplant caviar, salmon with sorrel sauce, pear souffle. Second day-salad of artichokes and green beans in wine vinegar, sweetbreads with mushrooms, melon sherbet, poached egg with watercress, whiting with chopped vegetables, baked apple...
...gags. In a world where "things are seldom what they seem to be" and real decisions are impossible, LaZebnik's emphasis on immediate satisfaction of the appetites--in this case, hunger--makes a certain kind of sense. Nevertheless, there's only so much humor to be squeezed from a pear that turns out to be someone's fiance, or from a shepherdess blowing on a banana. And what's only vaguely amusing the first time around hardly improves with repetition...
With the advent of the Kennedy Administration, the CIA plainly assumed that the new President would favor the enterprise against Castro. In February 1961 Bissell brought a new personality into the plan: a CIA officer named William K. Harvey. Long retired and living now in Indianapolis, Harvey was a pear-shaped fellow with a swinging stride. An intelligence officer of the direct-action school, he habitually carried a revolver in his belt...