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Those closers are the quintessential Kerr. The dish has been carried into a dining-room set that looks like something left over by Liberace. Candles are aglow. Violins are playing Chopin or The Man I Love. Kerr's lips tremble with rapture. He blows kisses to his own cuisine and launches into the most passionate eating scenes since Tom Jones. Occasionally he falls as flat as a novice's souffle. He once referred to the trimming of mushroom stems for a steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie as "a small circumcision." He crimped the edge of a piecrust...
...Painter Willem de Kooning forget it. Back in his homeland for the first time since he sailed to the U.S. as a deckhand in 1926, the 64-year-old abstract expressionist confessed, "I was afraid to come back, but I was wrong." Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum was aglow with 90 De Kooning oils, and idolizing crowds trailed him everywhere. The only problem was that he had forgotten his mother tongue. After U.S. Ambassador William Tyler addressed the opening-night crowd at the Stedelijk in impeccable Dutch, De Kooning admitted: "I could not understand one word of what the ambassador...
...large cocktail parties. On its walls hang 16 prize paintings by impressionists and postimpressionists, including a voluptuous Renoir Bather, and a darkly rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion. For any other collection, these 16 would be more than enough, but the adjoining dining room is fairly aglow with the Kreegers' most spectacular collection-within-a-collection. Eight mistily magnetic Monets offer a wide range of insights into the painter's gifts, from the crisp precision of an 1881 Varengeville to the moist verdure of a late (1906-16) Water Lilies...
...Michigan team has learned about the young men who are still alive. Of the 288 unmarried male drivers under 25 interviewed, more than a third had had accidents during the past year, and nearly half had received tickets for moving traffic violations. "When they begin driving, they are aglow with new skill and somewhat careful," says Schuman. "If they have accidents, they are usually merely fender benders. Later, they want faster cars and take more chances." Accidents for drivers over 21 and under 25 are fewer-but more often fatal...
...group of inexperienced youngsters (some of whom showed up for work with switchblades) a series of magnificent life studies. One unforgettable moment: Ellen O'Mara as the Fat Girl, at a school dance in the arms of the English teacher (Patrick Bedford) she idolizes, her square pudding face aglow in awe and beatification. At such moments, rare in cinematic annals, the camera uses unadorned reality as its point of departure and comes around full circle...