Word: epicurean
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...Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into an aristocratic wake, and is forced to eat the cooked carcass in an epicurean setting. His Chaplinesque resilience does not fail him. "Could I have a side order of mice?" he asks. An unexpectedly macabre finale silences both hero and show...
...show musicians levitating through clouds of charcoal. His bronze bas-reliefs have ragged edges as if these too were shards from some ancient temple Faces peer and hands pry through the surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside his graven image, discard his mask of duplicity He has succeeded where few contemporaries have even dared to try in marrying today's religious concerns...
...sense of the limits of life, Camus never advocated an Epicurean withdrawal. He believed that all of life should be savored, the bitter with the sweet. These early notebooks tell nothing of Camus' heroic service in the Resistance; they say surprisingly little about the war. But Camus does make clear in them his reasons for joining the Resistance: "There is nothing less excusable than war and the appeal to national hatreds. But once war has come, it is both cowardly and useless to try to stand on one side under the pretext that one is not responsible...
Unlike many a modern intellectual. Arnold did not retreat into ivory-tower es-theticism. sour stoical isolation or epicurean sensuality. Instead, in the muscular Victorian fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between...
...capital's Big Four: Maxim's, Lapérouse, Grand Vefour, Tour d'Argent (which was demoted to ** in 1952, restored in 1954). Last week, within minutes of the Guide's release, gastronomes learned that, instead, Michelin had pinned a third star on Lasserre, an epicurean pavilion off the Champs-Elysées. Among its celebrated specialties: Sole fourrée Bagatelle ($2.20), breaded filets stuffed with lobster, mushrooms, truffles and cream sauce; Steak Dumas ($2.80), grilled, covered with beef marrow, and smothered in sauce of shallots, butter, white wine and veal bouillon...