The Oxford Companion to Food,'' he thought it would take five years. Twenty years later, the book will come out next week. The Royal Academy's summer show hangs stately as ever, and Rembrandt glows darkly at the National Gallery. But the lexicographer has to be an optimist, as Ted Stanger, a former Newsweek bureau chief and longtime Paris resident, learned when he undertook an American-French dictionary four years ago. Some 30 years ago, Beverly Pepper was back in the United States on a working trip from Italy, where she and her husband, Bill, have lived since 1952.
Much public housing is both perfunctory and patronizing, providing adequate shelter and slight ease.
Like Lord Byron, who awoke to find himself famous, David Hockney has been celebrated from an early age. His fame lives on thanks to the Ernest Hemingway Collection, a new body of licensed products embracing furniture, accessories, gifts and textiles,'' proclaims a press release from Fashion Licensing of America Inc., whose president, Marla A. Metzner, is ensuring that the Nobel Prize winner's fame lives on in such objects as the Corrida Sofa, the Sun Valley Cocktail Table and the Papa Hemingway Chair and Ottoman.