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...series in the 1960s [Oct. 6]. But the most captivating actress to play Catwoman in the Batman shows was the incomparable Julie Newmar. No one else could hold a paw to her. Please give credit where credit is due, along with a saucer of warm milk and a sprig of catnip. Wayne Harrison Loganville...
...head shaped like a nautilus. Frankly some of it gets a little too airy. As poetry it makes for merely curious comix. More satisfying are the longer, unmistakably autobiographical narratives about Abe's travels through Finland, Sweden and Greece. Dakin picks out the details of travel - the sprig of herbs served with the meal or the yellow leaves blowing by the hostel window - and evokes the heightened state of awareness that always accompanies going to new places...
...mound of lamb tartar, which he molds into the shape of a bonbon and arranges on a square white plate, alongside an identical mound of tuna tartar. Between them he dribbles a cascade of osetra caviar, tiny shimmering globules the color of wet seaweed. Aside from a delicate sprig of cilantro, nothing else is on the plate...
...strategy meetings and ends with an appearance on Nightline. At a dinner squeezed in after The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and before Larry King, he orders a hamburger with absolutely nothing on it, a fetish of the unapologetic red-meat eater who doesn't want so much as a sprig of parsley between the bun and the burger. While he likes chilled Mumm champagne and gourmet cuisine on bike trips in Provence with his family, he can live for days on pretzels and Diet Coke. When he finds out the restaurant has his favorite dessert, chocolate ice cream, he digs...
...holds up a fat sprig of marijuana buds and points out the crystals of dried resin that sparkle like tiny diamonds in the flat winter sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British...