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...static. But because the theater is ultimately a medium of language, of narrative, a skilled playwright can find in just such a conversation all the action an audience needs. The result can be poignant and elegiac, like David Storey's Home, or salty and burlesque, like David Mamet's Duck Variations, or full of rage and silences, like many of Beckett's dramas...
...dishes that are appetizer-size portions of new-wave Italian specialties. In this sparkling café, with its black lacquer and mirror trim, a meal may include samplings of tiny clams in a garlicky tomato broth, tagliatelle in a meat and porcini sauce, chunks of snowy fish steamed with vegetables, duck breast rolled around a pureed olive "caviar." It is in relaxed contrast to Owner Piero Selvaggio's pricey, well-established Valentino...
...comfortable recollection of the familiar. Rosenzweig and her partner Ken Aretsky opened this snug, intimate restaurant with its bosky seasonal mural just a year ago, and it soon had a two- to four-week waiting list for peak-hour reservations. She has a special talent for lamb and duck dishes. Other outstanding offerings include corn cakes with caviar and crème fraîche, chimney-smoked lobster, quail with beet sauce, warm apple timbale with caramel sauce and chocolate bread pudding...
...removed a cancerous growth from Reagan's colon. The President recovered quickly and apparently completely, but apart from the summit his political momentum seemed to wane. Reagan's success in pushing a tax-reform bill through the House at year's end demonstrated that he is hardly a lame duck yet. Nonetheless, whether he can win a final bill at all close to his desires--or indeed any bill--is one of the major questions of 1986. Spy scandals, headed by the exposure of the Walker-family espionage ring, proliferated as rarely, if ever, before. The scare of the year...
...that last for decades; others never reach into popular culture at all. Winslow Homer was a painter of the first kind. Even today, 150 years after his birth, one sees his echoes on half the magazine racks of America. Just as John James Audubon becomes, by dilution, the common duck stamp, so one detects the vestiges of Homer's watercolors in every outdoor-magazine cover that has a dead whitetail draped over a log or a largemouth bass, like an enraged Edward G. Robinson with fins, jumping from dark swamp water. Homer was not, of course, the first "sporting artist...