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...master of that new wave, Paul Bocuse, who calls himself the "Lion of Lyon." He received his third star in 1965 and is the new school's preeminent practitioner, the leader in the reaction against heavy, highly stylized cooking that burdens food with pre-reduced sauces, excess stuffing, ornate croustades and cosmetic montages. Bocuse preaches in favor of provincial simplicity in the tradition of the bonne femme who relies more on basic ingredients than complicated technique. "A chef, even a bad one, can never go wrong," he says, "if he has good raw materials." The point, as Bocuse sees...
Spilsted estimated that the total cost of the festival would be in excess...
...century old, while Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia date back only to 1918. Underlying Europe's somewhat artificial frontiers is a patchwork of ancient tribal and economic enclaves divided by geography, culture and what Italian Sociologist Francesco Ferrarotti describes as "the greatest single non-unifying factor in Europe, an excess of history...
...papaw patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless excess, a puppet dedicated to self-parody. Jeff Bridges, as a sensitive son, is decent enough- a triumph under the circumstances-and a newcomer named Season Hubley is something more than that. In the thankless role of a teen-age girl who is spirited off by the Steiger clan, she is fresh...
...ending some programs, the Administration has shown its Neanderthal social instincts. As President Bok admitted, some of the training grants at the Medical School had "gotten out of hand," but such excess hardly justifies the end of aid to the Boston City Hospital, a 700-bed central Boston facility that may have to reduce its patient capacity by almost a third. These cuts and cuts for basic research in the health sciences only demonstrate Nixon's backward tendencies...