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There are two poems, "Letter from a Foreign City," by Verandah Porche and "Idlewild Airport" by Steve Lerner. Verandah Porche's poem is like a house. A woman lies in her man's bed writing a former lover for "some fatherly advice." She is "gentle in the lap of love," has redeemed her days, "Have peeled your life from mine/like a tangerine...
Pope-Hennessy, authorized biographer of Queen Mary, grandson and biographer (Verandah) of a British colonial governor, is not a formal historian; his book is a stark, sometimes emotional act of moral scrutiny. From brutal start to finish, he documents the slave traders' operation as a "vast complex of international crime." Captains' letters, half-literate journals, freed slaves' memoirs-all the available primary sources are meticulously assayed, not so much to show how the slave trade operated as to try to explain...
...short of skirt, with side slits topped by tiny bows. Priced from $2.98 to about $50.00 the shift can go practically anywhere on practically anyone. It is fine for toe-testing at the ocean's edge, or to cover up wet bathing suits for drinks on the clubhouse verandah (après beach, nothing picks one up like a good belt). It is also socially acceptable for cocktails and dinner at the most exclusive playgrounds in the East. And house wives love it. "Just perfect," says one enthusiast, "not only cool, but some thing you can wear with individuality...
They concluded that the famed "Baalbek verandah" in Lebanon-a vast and ancient platform of huge stone slabs-may have been the launching site for the return trip of cosmonauts from another world. Though discounting the Bible as a source of revealed religion, Writers Rich and Chernenkov eagerly accept it as a historical document. References to angels descending to earth, they decided, may refer to travelers from outer space, "just as some hundreds of years ago the first Spaniards were taken for gods by the Indians." Such Biblical figures as Enoch and Elijah, who "reportedly" ascended to heaven, may have...
Entering the Verandah Grill of the Queen Mary, the old man walked slowly, his shoulders stooped by his 78 years...