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After all those years of flinging rich Gallic dishes about on TV, America's premier French chef, Julia Child, has become a culinary turncoat. In her first new public broadcasting series since 1972, she will concentrate on, of all things, American cuisine. Says Julia, 64: "It's time we branched out and did something different." In the 13-installment program, which she will begin shooting in September, Julia will whip up entire meals instead of single dishes, aiming also to "get out of the kindergarten. We don't want to show how to chop onions. This will...
...evidence on dating is largely circumstantial, drawn from internal analysis of the books, but there are a few external dates to go by. Historians learned decades ago that Gallic was proconsul of Achaia in A.D. 51-52, and Paul stood trial before him (Acts 18), so much of the chronology of Paul's career has fallen into place. A much larger event was the wave of terror against Christians that occurred between the burning of Rome (July 64) and the suicide of the Emperor Nero (June 68), during which both Peter and Paul probably died. Robinson thinks this...
COUSIN, COUSINE, much honored in France, is one of those overbearingly blithe sexual comedies that stirred the New Wave directors to rebellion. The movie confuses fecklessness with charm, trips so lightly that it never settles down to anything telling. Gallic comedies like Cousin, Cousine are animated by a certain earthbound volatility of spirit and depend on a willingness to believe that sensuality can come in an array of sizes and shades, all pastel...
...Gallic disparagement could, to some extent, be attributed to a kind of reverse chauvinism: anything the Americans go wild for is automatically suspect. The corollary: the French have come around to buying the Matisses, Braques and Picassos that American art collectors started snapping up 70 years ago. Nor is that too extreme a comparison. Critic after critic referred to Saint Laurent's originals as investments. Women's Wear Daily called them "instant museum pieces...
...visit to Paris which the Communist daily L 'Humanité heralded as "historique!" As Marchais's guest, the Italian leader once more proved that he is a campaigner to be reckoned with: his 47-minute speech in barely accented French to a rally of 70,000 Gallic comrades was a tour de force. Marchais for an hour had delivered a predictable tirade damning such enemies of the right as French President Giscard d'Estaing and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Berlinguer's address was a well-constructed appeal for a "different socialism...