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Sichuan cuisine, one of the four great schools of Chinese cooking, produces such imaginative creations as “abalone and chrysanthemums,” “peonies and butterflies,” and “stewed bear’s trotters in brown sauce.”
The Darger watercolors on exhibit include both peacetime tableaux of tiny lassies, some naked, some in dresses, disporting themselves among butterflies and enormous flowers and odd little birds--and scenes of maniacal carnage, in which the same tiny lassies are strangled naked (distorted faces, tongues stuck out) and disemboweled by merciless Glandelinians.
So if that wasn't enough to put a damper on anyone's mood, some radio reporters decided it was a good time to let us now that after all the spraying of mosquitoes (the stuff seems to kill butterflies and other birds and also adversely affect humans with asthma), we could have the same outbreak of Nile fever encephalitis next spring.
The Terminator decorates his ceramics with butterflies, flowers, and hearts.
Rare species of butterflies and delicate hummingbirds take to the air, and crocodiles and manatees still live in and around vast tracts of mangrove swamp in the south.