Sublime

The weight of the rheumy-eyed drunks who served as lifeguards at Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Beach and Coney Island was as excessive for their job as were their ages. “The first time I saw those guys lined up in their swimming costumes, I could hardly believe it,” recalls Samuel M. White, who was later put in charge of them. “Some of them ran 225 or

What are the rights of man, if they do not include the normal right to regulate his own health, in relation to the normal risks of diet and daily life? Nobody can pretend that beer is a poison as prussic acid is a poison; that all the millions of civilised men who drank it all fell down dead when they had touched it. Its use and abuse is obviously

of outlandish facts and quotes—he is a tenacious reporter—and a style that barely suppresses his own amusement. It works particularly well on the buccaneers who continue to try the patience of the citizenry, as proved by his profile in The New Yorker of the developer Donald Trump. Noting that Trump “had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury,

Laguiole is a small, pleasant town, and there is no doubt about its principal business. On the main street alone, there must be a dozen display windows bristling with knives: the classic pocket knife, the shepherd’s friend (with an evil-looking spike at one end), dainty handbag-sized models for the modern woman.

To–day the rich man knows in his heart that he is a cancer and not an organ of the State. He differs from all other thieves or parasites for this reason: that the brigand who takes by force wishes his victims to be rich. But he who wins by a one–sided contract actually wishes them to be poor.

Hollandaise is a veritable petri-dish of biohazards.

I have no doubt there are good chefs working in spas throughout France, but the godfather of them all is Michel Guérard, one of the first modern celebrity cooks. He became a household name in France more than twenty years ago when he inventedcuisine minceur. This was based on the thought—revolutionary in those days, and not all that common even

To die violently is “righteous,” a flash. To keep on living, as Peter Fonda points out in The Wild Angels, is just to keep on paying rent. A successful bike movie is a perfect Rorschach of its audience.

De quelque façon qu’on le prît, nous étions toujours pauvres et je faisais encore de petites économies en prétendant, par exemple, que j’étais invité à déjeuner, pour me promener pendant deux heures au Luxembourg et décrire, au retour, mon merveilleux déjeuner à ma femme. Quand vous avez vingt-cinq ans et que vous appartenez naturellement à la