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...eggs and omelets, in which whites and yolks were blended. The yolks made equally good mayonnaise when - whipped with salad oil. However, there was a mild difference in flavor in boiled, poached and fried preparations in which cooked yolks and whites remained separate. The East Coast yolks had an airier, dairy taste -- perhaps because they were a bit fresher and had not traveled...
Some of the malaise could be attributed to birth pains of the Palais des Festivals, a new brutalist slab that opened its doors after five years of construction delays. Unlike the older, airier Palais, the new building invited nothing but business, despite the exertions of Veteran Starlet Edy Williams, who would display herself whether anyone asked...
What can be determined for sure is that cheap ice cream is half air. It would be airier still if Government regulations allowed it. Expensive ice cream is less than 30% air. Not only is superpremium made with the best cream, fresh fruit, chocolate and liqueurs (a fine French vanilla assays out at 3% egg yolks, twice the minimum specified by the U.S. Government for ice cream that is labeled French), but it contains a great deal more of these ingredients. A gallon of asylum-grade supermarket chocolate ripple weighs about 4½ lbs., and a gallon of Ben & Jerry...
...Courbet's concreteness that strikes one first. He had an extraordinary power to realize sensations. No sky is airier, more washed with light, than the blue space of The Meeting. Apples in a dish acquire a red density, a solidity-a completeness of being-that no painted apple had before. As the English critic John Berger remarked, the force of gravity was to Courbet what the vibration of light was to Monet and the impressionists. He could put more death into a trout, hooked and flapping on the pebbles, than Raphael could inject into a whole Crucifixion. Courbet...
MARY POPPINS. In Walt Disney's drollest movie in years, Julie Andrews works miracles as the rosy-cheeked young nanny who slides up bannisters and whisks the kiddies off to the airier reaches of a fantasy that offers many more lifts than lapses...