Word: amat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burlesque and Joycean wordplay boldly colored by a fastidious disdain for the fake, the tawdry and the pompous. Even the titles of Perelman's "bits of embroidery," as he called his pieces, set new boundaries for comic absurdity: Somewhere a Roscoe; Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy; Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, Enough; Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away; No Starch in the Dhoti, S'll Vous Plait; Methinks He Doth Protein Too Much. His death last week in New York at 75 closed the page on a generation of American humorists that included Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy...
Jean-Marie Amat, 30, whose handsome St. James restaurant in Bordeaux has earned him a stellar reputation in only four years: "Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably. I look for the note of flavor that will astonish slightly, without shocking. You must judge that by your own sense of taste. The one person you can never fool is yourself...