The New Yorker, 2007-08-27
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fiefoe"Royals: Posh Spices" / Rebecca Mead
__ stargazy pie, a Cornish delicacy in which the cooked heads of pilchards poke through the piecrust
"The Human Bomb" / Adam Gopnik
__ almost Kennedeysque in its exuberance and willed innocence
__ Bonapartism is deliberately disruptive urban, friendly to large capital, desperate for reform. The Bonapartist tradition is very much that of an outsider - whether Corsican or Greek-Hungarian - in a Parisian setting.
__ Now, for the first time, it's possible to imagine modernization as something independent of Americanization.
"He That Plays The King" / John Lahr
__ his mauve kitchen
__ on McKellen's embossed pink letterhead
__ "(The royals) go very slowly, to imprint on your memory that moment." McKellen said.
__ "(In Richard III) one-handed he had to dress himself, do all his buttons up, plus a clasp, take a cigarette out of his case and light it, and appear the perfect military man by the end,.. It was the apotheosis of technical virtuosity married to character."
Cartoon: bedraggled couple crawling down a sand dune - "Why isn't it OK for us to have different mirages?"
"Sowing For Apocalypse" / John Seabrook
"Lift Not The Painted Veil": Through the unheeding many he did move,/ A splendour among shadows, a bright blot/ Upon this gloomy scene
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__ stargazy pie, a Cornish delicacy in which the cooked heads of pilchards poke through the piecrust
"The Human Bomb" / Adam Gopnik
__ almost Kennedeysque in its exuberance and willed innocence
__ Bonapartism is deliberately disruptive urban, friendly to large capital, desperate for reform. The Bonapartist tradition is very much that of an outsider - whether Corsican or Greek-Hungarian - in a Parisian setting.
__ Now, for the first time, it's possible to imagine modernization as something independent of Americanization.
"He That Plays The King" / John Lahr
__ his mauve kitchen
__ on McKellen's embossed pink letterhead
__ "(The royals) go very slowly, to imprint on your memory that moment." McKellen said.
__ "(In Richard III) one-handed he had to dress himself, do all his buttons up, plus a clasp, take a cigarette out of his case and light it, and appear the perfect military man by the end,.. It was the apotheosis of technical virtuosity married to character."
Cartoon: bedraggled couple crawling down a sand dune - "Why isn't it OK for us to have different mirages?"
"Sowing For Apocalypse" / John Seabrook
- A.G. Stchukin, a specialist in peanuts, died of starvation in the building, as did D.S. Ivanov, a rice specialist, both surrounded by thousands of packets of seeds.
- In each case, a legume was domesticated along with a grain or cereal: lentils with wheat in the Mediterranean; beans with maize in South America; soybeans with rice in Asia. Eating both together provided early humans with the right balance of protein and fat.
- The Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, was the headquarters of Great Britain's botanical empire.
- After the fall of the Taliban they discovered that looters had dumped the seeds on the floor. "Apparently, they were after the jars."
- Thomas Jefferson .. smuggled rice seeds out of Italy by sewing them into the lining of his coat.
"Lift Not The Painted Veil": Through the unheeding many he did move,/ A splendour among shadows, a bright blot/ Upon this gloomy scene
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