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...space in people's heads is getting smaller," says Field. "The negative ads are the ones that stick." The forum for most of the mudslinging is television. In big statewide races, staging rallies and pressing the flesh in traditional "retail campaigns" are becoming dying arts; saturating the airwaves with pungent, simplistic 30-sec. "hit ads" is considered more efficient and effective...
...inventive New York impresario who created The Four Seasons and Windows on the World. Baum now runs a promising, quasi-postmodern creation called Aurora, where eclectic new French-American cooking prevails. Among the better menu choices are the roasted pigeon with sweet garlic, lime-broiled guinea fowl and a pungent lemon hazelnut torte. Enthusiastic over what he calls le reve americain (the American dream), Pangaud says, "I love the open-mindedness of this country. You can try much more than in Europe with food and with your life. Besides, there are too many expensive restaurants in Paris for the number...
...apparently timeless, nonregional appeal is the Reuben, a grilled combination of sauerkraut, corned beef and Swiss cheese served on sourdough pumpernickel. This pungent creation has been attributed to Reuben Kay, a wholesale grocer in Omaha who invented it for a weekly poker group. Another theory gives credit to Arnold Reuben, whose New York restaurant, a superdeli of the '40s and '50s, featured lofty and complex sandwiches named for celebrity regulars. One example: a combination of cream cheese, bar-le-duc (white currant jam), tongue and sweet pickles on whole wheat was inexplicably the Frank Sinatra...
...father and son, 35 years apart. To understand what is happening to him, the son must solve a puzzle that baffled his father, who died in combat before his heir was born. Author Bertie Denham, 58, who has written one previous mystery (The Man Who Lost His Shadow), creates pungent characters and evokes subtle parallels between the superficially different Britains of father and son. The novel's special pleasure is its setting in the House of Lords, a political institution that has rarely been explored in modern fiction. Denham is in fact Lord Denham, a hereditary peer...
...pungent aroma of squished, decaying fish. The olfactory stimulation of rotting marine organisms...