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...change is as much one of style a substance. Julia Child may shop at Sage's, but that doesn't mean it's a good place to pick up a gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork...
...Things Soft and Edible by James Herriot. A surprising new look at the Yorkshire veterinarian. Introduction by Julia Child. "Delicious"-Kirkus Reviews...
...Britain 1984 A.D., no one would have suspected that Winston and Julia were capable of crimethink (dangerous thoughts) or a secret desire for ownlife (individualism). After all, Party-Member Winston Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy...
...Winston and Julia rebelled, fell in love and paid the penalty in the terroristic world of tomorrow is the thread on which Britain's George Orwell has spun his latest and finest work of fiction. In Animal Farm, Orwell parodied the Communist system in terms of barnyard satire; but in 1984, there is not a smile or a jest that does not add bitterness to Orwell's utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time...
Commission Member Richard L. Gordon, a professor at Pennsylvania State University who is Jewish and has a paralyzed right arm, said he was "disturbed" by Watt's remarks. Panelist Julia Walsh, a Washington investment counselor, said she resented the implication "that I am the token woman." David Linowes, a Jew and a professor of economics at the University of Illinois, and Andrew Brimmer, a black and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, called Watt's remarks "unfortunate...