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...description of the differences between the muscle fibers of fish and those of meat makes it clear why seafood is naturally tender whereas meat needs cooking to become easily chewable. Detailed diagrams of molecular structures and cross sections of tissues are always related to cooking and eating properties. A reader with a less scientific turn of mind can skip the theory and get almost as much from the applied information. Never mind the cell structure of beef: anyone attempting to broil a very thick cut will find that the surface is burned long before the interior can be cooked...
...eavesdropping reader gets an earful of the couple's private life. There is much about debts and the obstacles that keep Paul from success. There is something about injuries that Liz suffered in a plane crash and oblique details about an international business deal with geopolitical implications. Booth is in public relations. His clients include the Rev. Elton Ude, founder of the Wayne Fickert Bible College and leader of an evangelical movement in Africa, and a mining company interested in mineral deposits in the area where Ude is harvesting souls. A U.S. Senator is also involved, as is McCandless...
...dutiful, gray Page One display of a traditional newspaper. "That was the easy part," recalls John Quinn, 59, the paper's editor. "But what should we put on instead? That's tough." The ideal mix, in Quinn's opinion, is a banner story across the top that grabs the reader's attention (SUPER HORSE JOHN HENRY PUT TO PASTURE headlined one issue last week). Another story tries to get a jump on the day's events (CHINA'S LI, REAGAN TALK PACTS TODAY). A third piece, dubbed Cover Story, deals in ankle-high depth with a current concern...
...charming as such anecdotes are, they leave the reader unsatisfied. It seems that Chandler was so intent on staying in the good graces of her interviewees that she never contradicts them or pushes them further than they wished. For example, Hedren’s daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, describes Hitchcock as “a motherfucker” because of how he treated Hedren. Chandler quotes the line, gold to any reporter, but never explores why it was said...
...Trumpets Call, released by Simon & Schuster last month, O’Toole draws upon a wealth of primary sources—including several collections of letters of Roosevelt’s family members that are stashed away in Harvard’s Houghton Library—to offer the reader a glimpse into TR’s most private thoughts...