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...Sihung Lung), a master chef, slicing, dicing, chopping, boiling, broiling, steaming the ingredients of the dinner he prepares every Sunday for his three not entirely grateful daughters. It's the culinary arts rendered as thrillingly as the martial arts, with a middle-age Taiwanese cook appearing as deft and graceful in his peaceful trade as Bruce Lee ever was in his more violent...
...games themselves have been rather incredible. Fans of any sport should be able to appreciate the deft footwork necessary to shield a ball from three attackers, or the agile kick that propels a ball on a perfect are to the far post of the goal. Soccer is, after all, just another game that asks for an object to be moved from one side of the field to another. Its mechanics are little different from football, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, polo and many others. Americans should have no trouble watching soccer avidly, when they spend so much time watching men move other...
More than any one character, it is the decade of the '70s itself that serves as the focus of Rick Moody's deft second novel, The Ice Storm (Little, Brown; 279 pages; $19.95). The story of the Hood family is set in 1973, by which time, as Moody writes, "the Summer of Love had migrated, in its drug- resistant strain, to the Connecticut suburbs five years after its initial introduction." In this new era of shag carpets and social upheaval, the Hoods and other New Canaan families have exchanged Chippendale propriety for Naugahyde and wife swapping...
...York City or Los Angeles, Fraser's deft and epigrammatic work about a romance between a gay man and a straight, married one would not seem startling. Indeed, his equally raw Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love played off-Broadway for months in 1991. But as the crusaders of the culture wars point out, there is more to America than its coastal metropolises. In Cincinnati, where Oh! Calcutta! was shut down briefly in 1974, where a museum was prosecuted in 1990 for displaying the late Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and where an antigay ordinance was enacted last...
...night-club life do exist, however. At the high end of the scale, Oscar de la Renta's clothes for Balmain in Paris are exquisite, better than the ready-to-wear he produced for his own line in New York. Anne Klein's offerings, now designed by the deft Richard Tyler, are impeccable without being boring. And Calvin Klein remains a great editor of trends. He suited up models, mixed and matched and threw in some chaste jumpers and wearable fuzzies...