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...with their dreary, badly prepared food, need not apply, and Paul Prudhomme's newer legend, K-Paul's, is a hassle and uneven.) Galatoire's is a turn-of-the- century set piece with white woodwork, beveled mirrors and brass coat hooks. Waiters are crisply professional; they even chop ice from huge blocks so drinks stay cold and undiluted. The overwhelming attraction is the lush Creole seafood: shrimp remoulade with its brassy mustard and paprika-zapped sauce; plump oysters Rockefeller; trout meuniere amandine, fragrant with hot brown butter and almond slices; and eggplant with a gentle, rich seafood stuffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans Beyond Gumbo and Beans | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Clancy's characters, including his solid mahogany hero, are not especially interesting. There is no sex at all, and generally not much human contact beyond the kind that requires a salute or a karate chop. On the other hand, the author has kept up with shifts of attitude in the U.S., and not every Kremlin big shot is portrayed as an evil-empire builder. He has not anticipated the end of the Afghan war, and the Pentagon procurement scandal is not foreshadowed. Complicated weapons systems usually work, and no U.S. military officer or enlisted person is less than true blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son Of Megatech THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Carlucci does talk about cutting "force structures," meaning numbers of troops, ships and planes, and of axing "lower priority, marginal" weapons systems, especially those still in the research-and-developm ent stage. But so far, he refuses to chop any of the superexpensive weapons programs that such experts as former Defense Secretaries Brown and James Schlesinger doubt the Pentagon could have afforded even under Weinberger's spending plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing The Pentagon to Heel | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Weinberger left behind a budget request for fiscal 1989, which begins Oct. 1, that called for $333 billion in military funding. Negotiators for the White House and Congress agreed to reduce that to just under $300 billion -- with no guidelines on what to chop. The new Secretary of Defense had a mere five weeks before formal presentation of the amended budget to find $33 billion to slash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing The Pentagon to Heel | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...best pitches: "God, that was beautiful. What'd I do?" Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is quite another species of ballplayer, the kind cursed with self-awareness. All that thinking has made him a journeyman catcher with a decade-long career bouncing through the minors like a Baltimore chop on Astroturf. Now Crash must baby-sit Nuke into maturity, teach him to connive a little in the game's moral geometry. "Strikeouts are boring. They're fascist," Crash tells Nuke. "Throw some ground balls; it's more democratic." With professors like Crash and Annie, Nuke can't miss vaulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: I Sing the Body Athletic BULL DURHAM | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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