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...TITLE: BRAINFOOD...
...caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed-wire fence of technical jargon may find other parts of Bourre's book no less pleasing than -- to cite one of his own examples -- an omelet with freshly picked Bordeaux cepe mushrooms...
Most people who go to technicolor extravaganzas would rather have duels than dialogue, and battles than brainfood. If spectacles can be said to have a purpose, it is to give pure entertainment. The technicolor plot is generally too flimsy to carry on unless buoyed up by blood and swordplay. Until some cinemogul realizes that an intelligent picture can be filmed in color, this is the way it will always be: that the number of corpses is directly proportional to the worth of the picture...
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