Word: flavorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Great pleasures rarely go unpunished, according to Richard Solomon, but it is still Robert Heinlein's (Time Enough for Love) philosophy that captures my allegiance: "To enjoy the full flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks...
...London's regal Savoy Hotel, long a favorite dining place of princes and Prime Ministers. What the 250 guests had gathered for, however, was not an affair of state but of the palate: a British firm was introducing the Churkey, a brand of bird that combines the delicate flavor of a chicken and the meatiness of a turkey...
...when it reaches a weight of about 5 lbs. Then it is injected with and marinated in a special secret broth distilled from the flesh of older chickens of egg-laying age, and quick-frozen for shipment to stores. The result is a bird that has the size and flavor of a mature chicken but the tenderness of a much younger one. An added bonus: like all turkeys, Churkey has a higher meat-to-bone ratio than chickens...
Avery Gorman's favorite flavor is bittersweet. It may be his only one In Oh, God! he presented the deity as an old man amused and appalled at his creation. In Kramer vs. Kramer he made Splitsville an interesting place to spend marriage. His newest tale concerns the mid-life-style of Steve Robbins, a child of The Bronx circa 1944. Steve grows up indifferent to everything but basketbal played in a schoolyard. But his parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped...
...fault; Spring's Awakening starts to flail away in the end, as if the author is in a hurry to get to his striking climax. Still, this only calls for a greater focus on the director's part. Instead, Prum flails even more than Wedekind. Scenes take on the flavor of sketches from Saturday Night Live; the light, controlled parody that distinguished the first half lumbers now in its obviousness. Worse, it gets turned back on the play and the production itself, always a dangerous enterprise...