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...summit this weekend at Williamsburg, Va. Their five meals will be based entirely on American ingredients and recipes. New York Times Food Writer Craig Claiborne (A Feast Made for Laughter), the man of all seasonings who was asked by the White House to organize the menus, has concocted a dish of boneless chicken legs and thighs stuffed with chopped chicken liver, wild rice and morels sauteed in butter. The mushrooms may even come from Mesick...
...most popular dish, he says, is meat sushi, which seems particularly appetizing to nighttime studiers...
...diversions (Lagerfeld, Montana), one's objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion shows are done for press value first and foremost...
Brown knew about this because he helped McCartney do it. This fact, like all else in the book, is presented with a tone of slightly mocking worldliness that sometimes cracks into cynicism. Yet The Love You Make is the best backstage Beatles book so far, full of deep-dish gossip, much of it brought together for the first time and some of it new. A good deal of the information is inherently dramatic and painful. Brown's compassionate recollection of Brian Epstein as a deliriously romantic, masochistic homosexual and erratic businessman who died of a drug overdose...
...heritage in part disappoints because the truth in the cliche is not supplemented by the quirky and stimulating observations Davies offers elsewhere. The need of the intellectual to "farce out" the essential, the orthodox and the ritual in life, as cooks work at the "extending and amplifying of a dish with other, complementary elements" is a central theme of the novel. It forms the basis for a plea for the introduction of intellectual vitality into religious life, and in a broader sense, becomes a justification for the Humanities--a concern which many modern universities find themselves forced to address. Darcourt...