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RUNNER-UP: The Nantucket Holiday Table by Susan Simon (Chronicle; $29.95) Have a glass of hot mulled wine with chestnuts. It's the holiday season, and the fire is blazing on Nantucket Island. Simon's recipes make it burn even brighter...
...what I like about you." It's more than just the jitters: she seems to sense some palpable, immediate danger, like hit men with flamethrowers. It's like you missed a scene that went "you have twenty minutes to get the money, Angele, or the Venus Beauty Institute will burn!" Her impatience becomes endearing when directed at her impossible customers, like Madame Buisse, who struts around Paris in nothing but a trenchcoat which she removes whenever possible. When a young French hooligan solicits Marie (pretty, seeing the widower) for "the finishing touches," Angele bluntly shows him to the visually poetic...
...know Harvard doesn't trust me. It hires proctors to watch my every move during final exams and provides me with special lamps lest I use my halogen irresponsibly and burn down my dorm. When I ate in Annenberg, I wasn't allowed to take an apple when I left, and clearing up a typo on my study card took three signatures and four phone calls--my word was worth almost nothing...
...about changing the culture of the school for the adults and the kids," she says. "That's the long haul. Can we stick with it and not burn...
Hyde was on such a lucky streak. So this is where we tell you how disillusioned she was by the moviemaking process. It's true that Reuben, the black one-eyed Vietnam vet in the book, became the white burn victim Eugene in the movie (first choice Denzel Washington was busy); that scriptwriter Leslie Dixon (Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair) fiddled with characters; that Leder moved the setting from Atascadero, Calif., to Las Vegas. ("I thought the land of lost hopes and lost dreams was the place for this movie," she says.) But Hyde shrugs off the changes...