Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "walking down the lonely streets of Washington, I felt more awe than anything else. I had viewed the struggle between President and press−the huge behind-the-scenes machine that tells the people who their President is. It is a game of psychological wit and personal charm, with stakes as high as they...
...seven, and immediately began to illustrate his diary. He is still at it. Son of a rich Parisian banker, but above all child of an ebullient and optimistic age, Lartigue recorded the expensive frolics of his family and friends-auto racing, glider flying, womanizing. With rare charm, he also caught the nostalgic flavors and spicy fashions of seven decades -from pleated cascades of ankle-length silk in the Bois de Boulogne (1904) to the rayon trickle of miniskirts on Carnaby Street (1968). One of the graphic confections of the year...
...airs,' and mazurka rhythms are more or less everywhere (although I hear Spanish music, quite interestingly, in there, too). But the second movement is no doubt the high point of the concerto. Even unregenerate anti-Chopin-mongers have been known to succumb (no doubt caught off guard) to the charm of this piece...
Exotic excursions into odd corners of cookery have some license to charm rather than instruct. But a working cookbook should be a textbook. It requires patient research, decent expository prose, and-on the publisher's part-painstaking work on editing and layout. Most cookbooks seem to aim solely for brevity. Beat the eggs with the sugar simply will not do unless it is followed by how long to beat and what the result should look or act like. No cookbook user is unfamiliar with that terse and truly enigmatic staple of mousse and souffle recipes: Fold in egg whites...
...book, All Manner of Food (Knopf; $8.95), is nearly as detailed as Julia's. There the resemblance ends. "I am not hung up on French cooking," explains Field, who is not hung up on modesty either. "I know every cuisine in the world." The book's charm lies in its intimacy and selectivity, and it is the personal statement of a rather scholarly man with sound taste...