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...exclaiming "wirrirriwump!") or dumps ingredients into the pan with a fine disregard for kilos, cups or spoonfuls. "I guess it's like poetry," sighed an English teacher in the class. "First you master the 14-line sonnet, then you go to free verse." Finally, the salivating students get to devour Hazan's three-course meals, washed down with Robert Mondavi's Napa Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: Saut | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Hell in Ice DEVOUR THE SNOW by Abe Polsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hell in Ice | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...this dire saga, Polsky has fashioned a grim drama about the existential anguish of last resorts. The play is fascinating even when its revelations are most appalling. Presented at off-Broadway's Hudson Guild Theater, Devour the Snow differs markedly from the spate of terminal situation dramas now in vogue in that it does not possess a moment of comic relief. Polsky means his play to be harrowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hell in Ice | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Devour the Snow is a profoundly moral play in the guise of a murder thriller. Polsky probes areas of guilt, self-deception, self-corruption and the agonizing question of "What price survival?" The cast is exemplary, and Jon De Vries as the tormented Keseberg sculptures a portrait of hell in ice. Toward the end, Polsky resorts to melodramatic devices that break the play's stark tension, but he is a welcome addition to the select company of playwriting naturals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hell in Ice | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

There the beautiful people would gather to devour gossip and caviar, sip Dom Perignon and dance until dawn under the indulgent stewardship of the Shah's trusted adviser and former son-in-law, Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi. Last week this stately pleasure dome had turned into a microcosm of the political chaos back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Washington's Caviar Coup | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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