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...world's other star molecular gastronomist, Heston Blumenthal of London's Fat Duck, largely avoided the question of technology versus taste, instead focusing on a new element in his ongoing quest to generate emotion through food. He introduced a new reservation system for his restaurant that involves a website tour and aromatizers filled with candy scents. It's all part of a plan to create excitement even before the client walks in the restaurant door. "The one thing I want a customer to say is that they had fun," said Blumenthal...
...avuncular? Yes, he does - though he's not uninterested in peering through the transom when she sheds her clothes at the life-drawing class. Is O'Toole - skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings - wonderful in this role? Indeed he is. Always more of an odd duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness and it precludes us from feeling the slightest bit sorry for him as illness chips away at - but never conquers - his bonhomie. It just sort of happens to him, and Venus just sort...
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After reporting that two Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts worth nearly $1 million had been lost and presumably stolen, Harvard Square’s Lame Duck Books found them yesterday hidden in a photograph sleeve in the store itself...
Roll said the manuscripts, which Lame Duck has owned for four years, are probably the only original copies of the stories. The “Menard” manuscript was listed in the store’s catalogue at $450,000, and the “Babel” script was listed...