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...Yankee's entrees run the full thermal spectrum, from fuming chicken-sausage jamalaya to mellow blackened redfish, originally a Prudhomme creation. The jambalaya, a variant of Spanish paella, consists mostly of seasoned orzo (overweight rice); it clears the sinuses thoroughly. The redfish, cooked quickly in a searing-hot pan, could be addictive...
...polemic against various schools of Flaubert criticism. "Louise Colet's Version" is an imaginary reconstruction of the opinions of Louise Colet, to whom Flaubert wrote his greatest love letters, but whose replies are unfortunately lost forever. In "Braithwalie's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas," he indulges in a latter-day variant of Flaubert's favorite sport, bourgeois-bashing. And the penultimate chapter. "Examination Paper," is just that. This is all great fun, scholarship that's playful, clever, and not without a certain profundity to boot...
...young addicts lying dead near samples of a heroin-like powder. Thirteen more users had died before Forensic Chemist Donald Cooper of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration managed to identify the substance. It was a designer version of the anesthetic fentanyl, which is widely used during prolonged surgery. The variant was many times as powerful as heroin; just a little could be an overdose...
Baker's job may be made easier by the mood in Congress, which seems receptive to some sort of flat tax. Each party has introduced its variant: a Republican version sponsored by Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin, and a Democratic one by Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri. The Baker-Regan duo may be able to provide the critical missing ingredient: enough muscle to persuade the President to provide personal, up-front leadership on the issue. "It will be a treeless plain with every special-interest group...
...consider the elbowing at the most elaborate California dinner parties. "People consider it chic to arrive late," says Wallis Annenberg, stepdaughter of the celebrated curtsier. "This is the land of the grand entrance, and God forbid that the audience isn't assembled when one arrives." In a variant ploy, the guest arrives on time but then immediately asks to use the telephone for "an urgent business conference" and disappears for an hour...