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...cliches -- hot goat cheese, cold pasta and dangerously raw salmon. Nevertheless, this erratic chef has a talent for simple dishes, among them lobster gazpacho, warm duck salad with turnip pancake, chopped lamb steak au poivre, T-bone steak cowboy style, a luscious warm vegetable stew and a fragrant polenta pound cake with Madeira cream...
Fighting phantoms Ezra Pound hated some Jews some hated Pound...
Especially inventive are Nabokov's condensed metaphors, like those in the poetry of imagists such as Ezra Pound. Eerie images flash through the half-aware mind. In the midst of a frenzy of frustrated desire, the protagonist fleetingly notes that the morning's newspaper is dated the 32nd. When the sleepy little girl is led into the hotel, she watches a "doubling cat" through her blurred vision...
After unidentified thieves successfully purloined two 150-pound pumpkins in pre-Halloween hijinks, two less clever copycat culprits continued the fruit terrorism...
...approaching Halloween night and we gathered that he and his friends wanted to have in their possession a 150-pound pumpkin," speculated Alan Roth, director of security and safety services...