![]() Are you saying-” “Calvin,” she said, reverting to her standard scientific tone, “did you know pistachios are naturally flammable? It’s because of their high fat content. What?” “It’s really hard to ignore someone who shouts, ‘Give me a sign,’ and then something bursts into flame.” “Wait. “I think my father’s talent for spontaneous combustion really made him stand out.” “Wait. Here is a sample of their conversation, and I can’t help thinking I’d like to sit at dinner with them and try to keep up. ![]() ![]() She falls in love with a fellow scientist, a man both brilliant and slightly mad, as she is. So she makes her name on the telly, teaching cookery as you’ve never known it before – as a science. Elizabeth Zott wants to study abiogenesis for God’s sake, no less than the origins of life, but that goes pear shape because she’s a woman and the very worst obstacles are thrown in her way along with endless casual misogyny. Woman’s liberation in the 1960s has never been so powerfully portrayed as in this book, where a woman is up against the male world of scientific research. ![]()
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London is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd published in 1997, which charts the history of London from 54 B.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was a founding member and I stayed put, so I ended up with all the gowns. We didn’t intend for members to leave, but when they did the gowns had to stay with the group. Nowadays, beadwork is often done by machinery, but our gowns were all beaded by hand. The neckline on these dresses was similar to some of the rounded, necklace-like African designs – the same on the sleeves, around the wrists. A lot of our gowns were covered with sequins, but sequins are not as heavy as pearls and diamonds. ![]() There was a diamond pattern, outlined in pearls, and the centre of each diamond contained a large crystal rose montee. They were made of pink silk crepe, and the designer was Michael Travis. Diane, Cindy and I performed there alongside Petula Clark, Engelbert Humperdinck and Diahann Carroll, and each of these gowns weighed about 35lb, although they didn’t feel that heavy when we had them on. ![]() W e called these the “Queen Mother” gowns because we wore them for the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium in 1968. ![]() ![]() Over coffee not long after, the author peppered the historian with questions and took copious notes. “I thought, oh my God, this is the next book,” said Groff, who raced to the front of the room when Bugyis finished. ![]() ![]() When Groff and her 2018-19 classmate Katie Bugyis had such an exchange, she put aside “The Vaster Wilds,” a novel based on early American captivity narratives, to dive into the life of an abbess from the Middle Ages.Īs Groff put it in a December 2020 tweet, she was listening to Bugyis’s fellowship talk about medieval liturgy when her brain “exploded into rainbows.” With that as her model, it’s not surprising she found inspiration at the Radcliffe Institute, where potent interactions between fellows from disparate fields are an everyday thing. ![]() The fiction writer Lauren Groff likens her artistic process to a kind of nuclear fusion, where collisions of creative energy produce narrative force. ![]() ![]() ![]() When confronted with the reality, primarily all of the president’s protectors referred to the final idea that he required to resign for the great fo the event along with the country. 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