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...connoisseurship--the need to know enough about Tuscan cooking or single-malt Scotch to not be an embarrassment at parties. But the blunt titles, with a wink at the reader, are a comforting reassurance that no one who picks up these books need apologize for having to start from scratch. "Would we have been able to laugh at ourselves enough to pick a book with the word idiot in the title in any other era?" asks Lloyd Short, overseer of the Idiot's series. "I don't think...
...things in her past that might be unsavory. It was a nightmarish result: through May, Starr didn't trust her, and she didn't like him. When summoned to provide a handwriting sample in Los Angeles on May 28, she arrived at the local FBI office but refused to scratch out what they asked...
...sandwiches. A strict vegetarian who objects to harming animals, Barrymore also believes in the spiritual power of auras, karma, energy fields and the like. Maybe that's why she has lately veered away from bad-girl roles and is looking for new projects that inspire her. "Upsetting movies scratch my psyche the wrong way," she says. "I want to laugh and escape and see love and romance. That's where I'm at." Doesn't sound dorky...
...kitchen seems increasingly a place to pursue cooking as a hobby, not a daily grind. In 1987, 43% of all meals included at least one item made from scratch; in 1997, that dropped to 38%. "There has been a revolution forever to find someone else to cook," says Harry Balzer, vice president of the NPD Group. "We want to eat at home; we just want someone else to do the cooking. That is now the home-meal replacement...
...found myself in a position of having to learn from scratch about a culture which I knew almost nothing about," says Eck, who decided to make the trip to India because she felt restive at the time of the Vietnam War and was increasingly aware of how little she knew about Asia. She was so enchanted by her experience there that she decided to embark on an academic career largely focused on the history and religion of India...