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BRITISH AUTHOR NICHOLAS EVANS was slowly picking at a dinner roll during a banquet in Bellevue, Washington, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. He was regaling the table with some Western trivia he had picked up while doing research for his best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. The bookstore owners listened attentively as he described "pitchfork fondue," a delicacy prepared by melting chunks of lard in a huge kettle, then dunking slabs of beef into the oozing caldron with a trident...
...politicians and prison authorities who are putting the squeeze on inmates say they are simply responding to public outrage over soft conditions--things like the prime ribs served at the annual banquet for "lifers'' at one Massachusetts facility or the federal court order that required North Carolina to equip each of 13 prisons with a set of drums, three guitars and five Frisbees. Both of those examples were mentioned in a November 1994 Reader's Digest article that has become, if not a manifesto, then at least a ready inventory of gripes for the no-frills movement...
...reel world, Western cinephiles have a three-China policy. They embrace mainland dramas by artists like Chen and Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern). They are beguiled by the Taiwanese domestic comedies of Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) and impressed by the daunting meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...
...Round Table of the film, while beautiful, simply does not match the original story's Table which supposedly filled an entire banquet hall and could seat 150 knights...
David Sadker will accept the $5,000 award at a banquet this evening in Orlando, Fla., at the American Association of University Women (AAUW) convention. In addition, the organization will establish a $15,000 teaching fellowship in memory of Myra Sadker, who died recently of breast cancer...