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...hold the stew! Can the soup! The name of Carol Cutler's new cookbook says it all: Pâté, the New Main Course for the '80s (Rawson; $14.95). Cutler, who is chief American consultant for TIME-LIFE Books' Good Cook series and the author of three previous cookbooks, maintains that most pates and terrines (the terms here are used almost interchangeably) are too filling, too important to serve as a first course. And she effectively demolishes the myths that they are fattening, costly and difficult to make. Pâtés have another great...
...lemon aspic; for a winter warmer, a classic French country pate. There are individual hot pates in pastry, one made with crab, another with carrots, and a tricolor fish terrine. Since most main-course pátés are served cold, they demand a reordering of menus, which Cutler does imaginatively. Indeed, the supporting dishes she suggests are often as tempting as the main event. They include cauliflower with shrimp sauce, pear gratin, mushroom flan, mango sherbet, gratineed blueberries, chocolate omelet, hot banana puffs and icy oranges with hot orange-ginger sauce. One menu, featuring shrimp with Pernod...
...They're just trying to make an example of him [Austin]. He could've really messed up medical records but he didn't. He just wanted to make some money." said a UCLA sensor Nancy Cutler...
THAT REACTION comes through loud and clear, helped by some strong actors and a director who sticks cautiously to a few basic note--squalor, loneliness, weired twistings of communication, and a creeping, gradually dominating mistrust. Cutler lets the cast carry Shepard's heavy messages, but he doesn't add much dramatic shape or thrust. Too ofen, the dialogue sags unbearably under the weight of its pregnant pauses; at other times, mostly in Act One, the actors lose track of their speeches meaning and say everything with the same flat air of significance...
...that momentum fortunately grows. By Act III even the wet-washcloth quality of the pauses can't distract us, though the pacing remains subtly off--the end of each scene, including the last, comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this load; Curse would weigh down the blithest spirit with distaste for these starving and unstarving misfits...