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...Bulli has also become the center of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike are scrutinizing the gin fizz that manages simultaneously to be hot and cold, the edible "paper" dotted with flowers, the frozen parmesan "air" that comes packed in a Styrofoam tub, and asking: Is it art or is it dinner? "We aren't saying that cooking is a new art form," says Ruth Noack, Documenta's curator. "We're saying that Ferran Adrià shows artistic intelligence." That distinction was lost last summer when director Roger Buergel...
...campy double entendres on Match Game 73 and Hollywood Squares, Charles Nelson Reilly was acclaimed for more serious work too. He won a Tony in 1962 (in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) and a nomination for directing Julie Christie in a 1997 revival of The Gin Game, and he tutored Bette Midler, Peter Boyle and Lily Tomlin in acting. The openly gay sitcom regular (The Ghost & Mrs. Muir; Love, American Style) once joked that his near constant TV presence was his revenge on an NBC executive who told him that "they don't allow queers on television...
...serene, thatched atria, more reminiscent of Bali than the bush; and there are friendly zebras in the gardens. The food is a well-presented delight, including fresh river fish, robust game and tender Zambian beef. And the library and bar are open-sided, fan-cooled temples to the gin and tonic, the cocktail that built an empire. Which is why, come midmorning, a languid groan goes up from guests lingering over coffee on the veranda as they realize they really should amble down to see the Falls...
...conservatives, we share support for many issues such as the sanctity of life, but 21st century conservatives also support issues that move beyond the 17th century concepts of ordered liberty. Its advertisement seeking writers who “curl up next to the fireplace with a glass of gin and tonic” shows the worlds of difference that lie between The Salient and the rest of the Harvard campus. Undeniably, intent on preserving this socio-economic tradition of the “upper class” and the “privileged,” The Salient has ultimately...
...even today observers in Portsmouth's Prescott Park saw a glimpse of the error screen the campaign currently faces. A modest crowd ("Oh, yeah, I've seen a lot more," said a local connoisseur) milled about while a speaker from a veterans' group tried to gin up some excitement with sheer volume: "Mah-CAIN! Mah-Cain!" he thundered. "We want McCain...