Word: chefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...advertising industry. It was Ogilvy who immortalized Hathaway shirts with Baron Wrangel's eyepatch and bearded Commander Whitehead for Schweppes. Cultivated, charming and handsome enough to model occasionally in his own ads, British-born David Ogilvy studied history at Oxford, served a Depression stint as a chef in a Paris hotel, and sold stoves door to door in Scotland before coming to the U.S. to work for Pollster George Gallup. When he set up his agency in 1948, Ogilvy made a private list of the five clients he wanted most: General Foods, Bristol-Myers, Campbell Soup, Lever Bros...
...Still Cookin'." Otto Passman looked upon all his handiwork not as that of a butcher but as that of a master chef. Cried he in response to criticism: "They say if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Well, I'm still cookin...
...seated there by arrogance of the proprietor and snobbism. But as a restaurateur, M. Soule is the only one who runs a proper French restaurant inside and out of France. His prices are high, but he gives more in quality, in integrity and honest good cooking than any other chef...
This story could have been sheer slumgullion, but under Sam Peckinpah's tasteful direction it is a minor chef-d'oeuvre among westerns. Shot near California's Mammoth Lakes, the film owes much of its beauty to nature. The camera hovers with loving grace over limpid, mirror-bright pools, trees like green-hooded knights, and the rumpled grandeur of blue-blanketed mountains. Ride the High Country has a rare honesty of script, performance and theme-that goodness is not a gift but a quest. In the unhurried tempo of their speech, their ease of bearing, the firm...
...crucial and most difficult role is Roger, the inarticulate pastry-chef who by the movie's end attains almost saint-like dignity. Charles Aznavour's characterization completely succeeds in making Roger believable without being either irritatingly simple or unworldly...