Word: classically
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...second message was that anything goes; the ironclad, oppressive dos and don'ts of classic cooking vanished. French chefs reached out to the Orient for ingredients and preparations and broke all the rules. Suddenly, creative minds went to work, often overzealously. "I don't want to be like everyone else," says Bradley Ogden, the 32-year-old chef who performs diligently if unevenly at San Francisco's Campton Place Hotel, proving that individuality itself is not the prize...
...scene is a great one, awesomely played by the two actresses. The way terror can suddenly appear in the midst of banality, the basic irony that is the source of most modern horror fiction whether it be crude slasher pic or elegant Hitchcock classic, has never been more eloquently or economically stated. For Ana, at least, there is relief in hysterically speaking at last of what has been, for her, the unspeakable. For Alicia, however, the friend's nightmare only hints at the one that she herself is to face. Under the terror imposed by the junta, which ruled Argentina...
With its well-proportioned central plaza and carefully orchestrated densities, however, Rockefeller Center is a clear descendant of classic cities, coherent and comfortably urban. The proposed Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters...
...climate and geography, sociocultural processes and accounts of everyday life and thought, and downplays the roles of great men and political events, which he labeled "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs"; in Saint-Gervais, France. Through two masterworks, his classic The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal Annales from 1956 to 1968, Braudel and his eclectic methods came to dominate French historiography, and substantially influenced scholars in Britain...
...fashioned is precisely the description that the avant-garde would attach to Briton David Pownall's Pride and Prejudice, being given its U.S. premiere in a meticulous production by Kenneth Frankel at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Shrewdly and wittily adapted from Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel, Pownall's tale has a beginning, middle and end. Its intrigues of love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than...