Word: frock
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Gone are the days of frock-coated waiters who lower engraved silver flatware to your left. Oxfordesque high-table dining has been usurped by gangly groups grappling for their barbeque sauce and tater tots. Ms. FManners stands behind the beauty of a first-courseplatters of baked brie, fine caviar piled high and foie gras sliced with utmost care. But dining halls that were once symbols of refinement are now filled with vagabonds who nightly make a mockery of their first course. While frequenting salad bars for their leafy greens and balsalmic, diners oft-times leave their trays unattended in search...
Thurman also played the lady of every man's desire in Vatel, director Roland Joffe's English-language costume epic with Gerard Depardieu. On opening night she wore a backless, faultless frock. If stately sensuality had a name here, it was Thurman...