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...become standard high school curriculum. Pauline Kael once said, "If you're hoping for elegance, don't begin with William Goldman." As Adventures makes clear, he even has trouble writing complete sentences. Screenwriting is such a natural for him that he relates important episodes of his life in script format. Besides, boyhood entrenchment, wider audiences-not to mention the pay-keeps luring him out to Hollywood...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Behind the Glitter | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...series will bear little resemblance to the gray, grainy, slapdash shows that made Child a kitchen word: no more dropped eggs, lumps in the sauce or uncarvable suckling pigs. Dinner has a slick new format, a grant of about $1 million from Polaroid, one of her previous underwriters, and, of course, mouth-watering color. Instead of concentrating on the making of a single dish, each 30-minute segment will include the preparation of a dinner for ten, an interview with a master chef and a winemaker, a "gathering" sequence in which Julia seeks out her raw materials at their source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Thoroughly American Julia | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Subilety and craftiness prevail throughout most of Arbatov's discussion of U.S. Soviet relations in The Soviet Viewpoint. Using the question answer format to its greatest advantage....Viewpoint provides an ideal forum for Arbatov to demonstrate--often convincingly--that the recent cooling off in relations between the superpowers is largely the fault of the United States...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: How They See It | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...after Fox and other Ad Board members expressed concerns that a straight simulation might further distort student perceptions, council and Ad Board representatives agreed to an open discussion format similar to a council-sponsored forum on the Core Curriculum attended by top officials last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ad Board Forum | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...format--loose segments titled. "The Miracle of Birth." "Growth and Learning." "Fighting Each Other." and so forth--offers director Terry Jones the opportunity to set up classic spoof shots from Death pacing the beach to the omnipresent British boys' schoolroom. And it enables crazed animator Terry Gilliam to create some of the wackiest sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fishing for an Answer | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

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