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Inside the store's cramped quarters, rich, dry aromas waft from the stack of coffee beans next to the mocha makers by the milk chocolate covered espresso beans ($12.50 per pound). The flavor of Ethiopian yirgacheffe coffee, Coffee Connection literature boasts, "suggests...floral lemon." A sip of "Yemen Mocha Mattari" suggests "spicy fruit or chocolate...
Hogwood then introduced the Modern Jazz Quartet--actually a trio, since Connie Kay, the group's drummer, was under medical observation. Their first piece, Blues in B, was composed by pianist John Lewis. This light arrangement, which emphasized Milt Jackson's vibraharp, seemed to waft through...
...southland's smoggy air largely results from poor atmospheric ventilation in the bowl-shaped South Coast Air Basin, where an "inversion layer" traps pollutants under a lid of hot air. In the daytime, ocean breezes waft pollution inland all across the basin. Then sunshine triggers a photochemical reaction that produces the highest ozone concentration in the U.S. Established in 1977, the district aims to bring Southern California's air quality into compliance with federal standards by 2010. If the agency falls short of that goal, Washington could take over. Given the terrain and the hodgepodge of local governments involved, only...
...course all novels are gossip novels, and most are rip-offs, generally of the author's friends and relatives. But the ethics of pilferage becomes woozy when too recognizable caricatures of dead grandees wallow in unlikely misbehavior. Ethical questions waft away, though, when the theft works. Then the stolen characters come to life; for instance, the dead King whom Shakespeare slurred as a bottled spider struts in his play as Richard...
...Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Comic novels, essays and biographies waft from Wilson with Mozartean ease. Each book seems better than the last, or at least different in some incomparable way. Such is the case with his approach to Lewis, the British writer and celebrator of Christian thought who delighted both adults (The Screwtape Letters) and children (The Chronicles of Narnia). Fans should be warned that Wilson's portrait of the saintly don contains some fleshy demons...