Word: au
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinners, supervised in turn by Vergé, Guérard and Bocuse, were crowned by such main courses as fondue de gigot d'agneau aux aubergines, volatile de Bresse and aiguillette de caneton au vin de Graves, for a total of 19 courses. Guerard's meal was adjudged the best of the trip by Gault, who gave it 19¾ points out of a possible 20. Fortunately, reported TIME'S gourmet-onboard, George Taber, dinner was over before a storm hit the Gulf of Genoa, sending many of the guests to their cabins...
Bresson's Au Hasard, Balthazar, plus a Griffith short, Thursday...
Monsieur is no exception. The au thor of the lush and intricate Alexandria Quartet here invents a novelist named Blanford, who invents a novelist named Sutcliffe, who caricatures Blanford mercilessly as "Bloshford," a bestselling hack. The book is one of those box-within-box amusements: Sutcliffe, as a character in a novel by Blanford, cracks up in the process of writing a novel in which he misinterprets the situations of some of his friends, other Blanford characters. These convolutions lead to the expectable mild ironies of viewpoint, but the plot is too sketchily developed to constitute the novel...
...milestone for Lisbon. A month ago, a still bolder step was taken by Producer Ruth Escobar, 39, who offered audiences her production of a play called Autos Sacramentais (Sacramental Rites). A dramatization of the eternal struggle between good and evil, it featured 14 Brazilians of both sexes cavorting onstage au nature! for two hours. A 69-year-old orange farmer who watched the production remarked: "It would have been better if there had been more lights...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gundersen was Lerner's fifth wife...