It would never occur to anyone at Gourmet to take the kind of sleek, witty food photographs I associate with the Life "Great Dinne...rs" series, or the crammed, decadent pictures the women's magazines specialize in. Gourmet gives you a full-page color picture of an incredibly serious rack of lamb persille sitting on a somber Blue Canton platter by Mottahedeh Historic Charleston Reproductions sitting on a stiff eighteenth-century English mahogany table from Charles Deacon & son--and it's no wonder I never cook anything from this magazine: the pictures are so reverent I almost feel I ought to pray to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth...er. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sang a canto in a canton, Cunning-coo, O, cuckoo cock,... In a canton of Belshazzar To Belshazzar, putrid rock, Pillar of a putrid people....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am... not free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,... Gloves as sweet as damask roses, Masks for faces and for noses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »