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Instead of the banquet of blowouts Super Bowl audiences have been subject to the past five years, this year we got a delicious feast. When Jim Breach kicked a field goal to put the Bengals up, 16-13, with three minutes left in the game, the excitement had only begun...
BABETTE'S FEAST Cooking is a metaphor for art in Gabriel Axel's wise, deeply ironic and richly realized adaptation of Isak Dinesen's story...
MOST DELICIOUS FILM SEQUEL When the Danish film Babette's Feast opened in the U.S. early this year, the irresistible meal prepared by the French-chef- masquerading-as-housemaid was offered in a posh restaurant in most of the cities where the film was shown. The meal, with its turtle soup (real or mock), its blini pancakes with caviar, the cailles en sarcophage -- quails with truffles and foie gras in a "sarcophagus" of puff pastry -- and the yeasty rum-drenched baba dessert, has become a classic staple at Petrossian in New York City, at $125 with the wines...
...fragile objects and impossible insurance costs, could or should be allowed to travel. An exhibition that dealt with this theme at full stretch would have to include Giorgione's Tempest and his (or Titian's) Concert Champetre, Botticelli's Primavera, Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods, plus any amount of Rubenses, Poussins, Annibale Carraccis, Claudes, Watteaus, Turners and Matisses, not to mention Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Seurat's Grande Jatte...
...what you want about The Game. Say it cures all the ills of a season. Say tradition makes it a pageant, an unmatched event in college sports, a football feast, no matter what the record of the teams...