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...prices in the B-&-B's are down during the spring season, so you can stay for about $20 a night in someone's quaint colonial house and get a very well-prepared breakfast every morning. The people who run these establishments are usually quite friendly, so you shouldn't steal their towels. They are also nice enough to leave you alone if you wish. You can find B-&-B's listed in selected tourist manuals...
...this diverse plenty a consistently high quality of thought and prose, and one has the makings of a Man of Letters -- a quaint designation in this era of celebrity scribes, but valid nevertheless. Wilson's formal structure and traditional style indicate an impatience with the sort of contemporary fiction that makes its own creation a central concern. What matters to him is the contradictions of human nature and the religious impulses that seek to understand the desires of the flesh and the spirit...
...infiltrated his Cabinet. His own intelligence chief is ferreting out scandals, real and invented, in an effort to bring down his government. In A Very British Coup, an engrossing new Masterpiece Theatre presentation, Perkins starts out trying to make a revolution. He ends up making a stand for the quaint notion that governments should be run by the people elected to office...
That qualifies as a quaint notion today. But not to Dick Schultz, 59, a basketball and baseball coach for 25 years and the NCAA's executive director for the past 16 months. He has put the membership (800 colleges and universities) on plain notice: "For willful cheating, severe penalties." Oklahoma's sentence for being caught on 20 varieties of recruiting violations includes a year's television blackout and two missed bowl opportunities (consider the potential revenue lost: just one Orange Bowl appearance is worth $2.75 million a team). The punishment prompted Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan to blurt, "They wanted...
...best new buildings and products are lively and provocative even as they avoid ideological purity. The compelling modernism of the moment is lush, dreamy and concerned with appropriateness, not big, inhumane and cookie-cutter corporate; successful ersatz-old-fashioned buildings are lately tough and even somber, not merely quaint and pleasant. Hybrids abound, and modesty is a virtue. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Long Island pool house, for example, combines industrial materials and delicate details. The Clayton County (Ga.) Library delivers a high concept with a relatively low budget. The finest work, from Washington's restored Union Station...