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What's the difference, Doug? How did the ugly duckling turn into a swan in one year? Hardin just doesn't know what happened. "I'm a bit faster this year," he says. But anybody knows that...
Stonehenge, Highway 7 outside Ridgefield, Conn. Swiss Chef Albert Stockli buys his fresh vegetables from such local farmers as Thomas E. Dewey and Lowell Thomas. Elegant Continental dining in a rambling house set by a swan-filled pond...
...voice is not big enough for the crucial role of Elsa. The Wagner devotee will find here a superb rendering of the master's orchestration, but he will inevitably wonder why, with all their resources, Leinsdorf and RCA Victor let a definitive Lohengrin glide away like the swan down the River Scheldt...
CACTUS FLOWER. The French need sex farces as children need fairy tales. In this telling, a dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes an appealing swan just in time to tame the big wolf (Barry Nelson...
What readers will find most fascinating in the book is Author Blackstock's self-portrait of Charity as philanthropist: stubborn, ironic, protective as a brooding swan, and absolutely unreconciled to old injustices. "I know in my mind," she writes, "that it is absurd, obscene and evil to hate a people, it is a form of genocide, it has no basis in reality. And yet when I think of the Germans, a vision comes before my eyes of still, unsmiling faces, branded wrists, a hysterical girl, screaming for her dead mother. And then, in defiance of my upbringing, my training...