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...“The tender boughs of innocence burn first,” says the town’s prophetess, the Log Lady, of Laura Palmer’s predicament, “and then all goodness is in jeopardy.”...
...The 17th-century food writer John Evelyn banned garlic from his salads due to its “intolerable rankness” and wrote that it should be kept for rustic types....
...The Survivors (Little, Brown, £14.99) has a new locale: no longer a scrubby outback but the Tasmanian coastal town of Evelyn Bay....
...Meanwhile, Bess’s elder sister Evelyn (Winona Ryder) takes a shine to a prominent widowed rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (John Turturro)....
...His face still carries the burns he suffered when his plane crashed. Black, who married a British woman called Evelyn Black, changed his surname to hers from his native Stangryciuk for convenience....
...They had an almost symbiotic relationship with their work — Evelyn completed William’s novels, William devised new formulas for Evelyn’s paints — and this extended to politics....
...He gleefully sends Ray on a trajectory similar to that of Paul Pennyfeather in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall (1928)....
...“Won’t burn or irritate the eyes,” it promised. “Pure. Gentle. Safe.”...
...There is lovely support from Sarah McNicholas as her classmate Sue, smitten with conscience, and from Greg Miller-Burns as Sue’s nice-guy boyfriend, Tommy....
...Images from the florilegium reproduced with the permission of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort Photograph: Paul Burns Slideshow photographs: Paul Burns; The Natural History Museum/Kevin Webb/NHM Image Resources...
...Enigmatic Katherine Burns is “famously easy to fall in love with” and juggles her suitors with frosty expertise....
...Romantic and exuberant, he was also a friend to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh....
...Agreeable, easily amused, fearsomely sociable, Haslam burns upon the water in which the in-crowd still bathes, after all these years....
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