Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cookbook-author Barbara Kafka (Microwave Gourmet) has quieted many culinary Luddites with dishes like her almost effortless microwave risotto. A sampled batch was creamy, a bit chewy and nearly identical to risotto made from the traditional Italian recipe that requires 35 minutes of nonstop, laborious stirring. "Microwaves don't cook everything well," Kafka cautions. "Manufacturers originally claimed that they were a magic pill that could do anything. They can -- badly...
HAVE the prayers of several million people had anything to do with the changes in Europe? That question will remain unanswerable for those unconvinced of papal infallibility. But, as with the "Z" article on the communist breakup, the message is more important than the author's identity. Even those wary of religious fervor can learn from the Fatima message and the actions of its adherents...
...QUINCUNX by Charles Palliser (Ballantine; $25). At 788 pages, this first novel seems designed for a more leisurely age. It was. The author's faithful pastiche of Victorian fiction -- with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness -- miraculously springs to life...
Hollywood is the sixth installment in the author's sprawling rewrite of U.S. history, and the formula established in such earlier books as Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) has grown comfy to a fault. Some fictional characters mingle with real people, rich, famous or notorious. Unfolding history can be overheard in drawing-room gossip. In this instance, the invention of the movies provokes drollery about crude, gullible Americans. When the dialogue is witty, Hollywood entertains. But its subject is essentially passing time, and reading it often feels like an exercise in doing just that...
...elderly at 26 sites in the U.S. and Canada, including doctors' offices, retirement homes, senior centers, high schools and colleges. "We're evangelists for the idea that older adults are very capable users of computers," says Executive Director Mary Furlong, an associate professor of education at U.S.F. and co-author of a book titled Computers for Kids over Sixty...