Depositing 1,500 eggs a day, she distinguishes the drones (unfertilized) from the far more numerous female worker bees, which constitute 95 percent of the colony.
In a splendidly gracious and loving way, she distinguishes Nichols's great talent, his enduring artistry, with what comes off as royally — and, I believe, unintentionally — faint praise.
If so, she may find material lacking in London, which she distinguishes from New York as a place where one might actually be happily married and not have to be constantly in search of excitement.
In between her interviews, Stern offers a cogent analysis of methodologies and structures: she distinguishes between lone-wolf avengers and organizations with hierarchies of command, between networks, franchises and freelancers, between inspirational leaders and leaderless resistance.
In her 1988 paperback, "Overcoming Overeating" (Fawcett Books), she distinguishes stomach hunger, the growling kind, from mouth hunger, the psychological growling for an oral fix, and contends that diets are useless because they lead only to bingeing and self-hatred.
