Word: cosmopolitanization
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...drama revolves around the relationship between Kit (Rebecca Howe) and Milly (Elsie Marks), two school cronies who rival each other inspite of their longstanding friendship. Kit, sophisticated and cosmopolitan, writes quality books that don't sell. Milly, banal and spitefully petty, writes trashy romances that make the bestseller's list. Milly accuses Kit of luring her husband (Jamie Wolf) and daughter Deidre (Nora Jaskowiak) from her; Deidre unwittingly sweeps Kit's boyfriend Rudd (Matthew Haynes) off his feet. None of this, however, is powerful enough to shatter the relationship between the two, which somehow manages to transcend all differences...
Pitch Dark is a novel with a broader itinerary, different shadowy characters but the same cosmopolitan, distanced voice. It belongs, of course, to Adler herself, a former student at some of the world's leading universities, including the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Yale Law School, and, at 45, an astute observer and listener based at The New Yorker. Like Speedboat, the new book is an artful arrangement of discontinuous parts. Its narrator exemplifies the fugitive detachment nurtured by young intellectuals in the 1950s. Her name is Kate Ennis, though her identity is never as clear as her prose...
While American restaurant food is now the world's most cosmopolitan, a Russian meal is almost as hard to buy in the U.S. as a Big Mac in Dnepropetrovsk. This vacuum can be filled by the home cook, with lively guidance from Darra Goldstein's delightful A la Russe (Random House; $16.95). The 15 Soviet republics have an extraordinarily diverse cuisine, embracing the cookery of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, representing regions from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle, reflecting tsarist extravagance and peasant reality. (Goldstein will follow a recipe for sturgeon soup with champagne, a favorite...
Club members, who pay $42 per month in dues, may cat lunch at the club twice a week without additional charge. Members may also bring guests to the lunches, which by all reports, are good evidence of the club's self-styled cosmopolitan image. "Sometimes, there is less English than foreign languages," says member David M. Sultan...
...taste. He succeeds, with considerable wit and a fine malice, but it is hard to take him seriously. Having revealed the stratagems and pretensions of everyone able and willing to read his book, Fussell emerges as an upscale bohemian. His ideal social category is the "X" class, a cosmopolitan elite who speak several languages, drink excellent cheap wine, never have to be at work on time and whistle Beethoven quartets...