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...Alfredo, which turns out to have nothing to do with the restaurant of the same name in Rome. In stead, as the menu footnotes, it is "Spaghetti-Freddy style." Gallatin Powers, owner of Gallatin's restaurant in Monterey, Calif:, explains the genesis of the chicken, orange juice, and ginger concoction he calls Poulet Albert simply: "I have a son named Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Edibility Gap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues, and membership runs to the likes of Senator Jacob Javits, Henry Ford, Truman Capote, the Duke of Bedford, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Douglas Dillon and George Plimpton. As Ginger Rogers says: "It's where you can meet the people you want to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 8, 1968 | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...most approachable of the three, had shaved off his moustache and trimmed his hair since last spring's U.S. tour. The change in appearance took on more significance when he began talking about his future. "I really want to get back into straight blues. Working with Jack and Ginger has been great, but I feel like I've gone off into a strange bag that's taken me further and further away from blues. The blues is where I belong." After seven years on the road he feels he deserves a vacation. Why so much touring? "We tour to make...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...performing. "I really need a certain amount of things going for me to make a good show. Like if I'm alone in my hotel room I just can't get myself into anything worthwhile. The mood of the audience, the location, the time of day, how Jack and Ginger are responding...all these have to be just right. The Fillmore concert (recorded on "Wheels of Fire") was like this. That was our peak. It happens less often...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Rock eats its young. Ginger Baker is like a beast from another world, a world of pressed rats, warthogs and toads. The controlled madness of his rhythm is responsible for the group's incessant drive. Ginger Baker must have the world's fastest right hand, left hand, right foot and left foot. The mind-bending accuracy with which he clouts the dozen or so drums and cymbals around him seems impossible when one looks at his scarecrow body. His physique provides the reason for Cream's demise. If Baker lives another year it will be a miracle. His whole nervous...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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