Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep from "going round the bend," Barrymaine devised elaborate daily routines. He ended each day by dictating faintly remembered news stories into a make-believe telephone. "Oh, Miss Jones," the ritual began, "I've got a good lead for today." When he had finished "filing" the story, he sometimes put in another imaginary call-to his 25-year-old daughter in London. He found the perfect use for China's stiff brown toilet paper: he made himself a deck of cards out of it and played solitaire...
...long on pictures (Alice in low-cut dress, shot from above; Alice in tight-fitting pants suit, shot from below), the cookbook is hardly aimed at self-styled Escoffiers or even Julia Children. "Recipes aren't as important as the philosophy behind them," says the author. "Good food is food you eat with your friends, when everybody is having a good time. So making sure that everyone is having a good time is the key to a successful meal...
...rotten kid"), dismisses international cuisine in four sentences. "Don't be intimidated by foreign cookery," she writes. "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." She is similarly cavalier about the tools of her trade. "Other books say, 'Do not, do not! Do not try to make a souffle unless you have a souffle dish.' They make cooking sound like a fantastic science, and that makes a lot of people afraid to cook...
...than to preach to the already converted. For any but a guilt-collecting audience, most of these plays rate a big B for Boredom. There is no moral suasion in crude hack work that substitutes lapel-grabbing diatribes for scrupulous dramatic craftsmanship. A poor play does not become a good play simply because the playwright's heart is in the right place...
...exploration of the precondition of myth, the psychophysical necessity that brought it into being and confirms its enduring validity. Grotowski begins by stripping away everything that he regards as the excess baggage of drama -makeup, props, lighting effects, music, scenery, a conventional stage. He even strips away a good part of the audience, never allowing it to number over 100 and sometimes as low as 40. He also has a very precise idea about what that audience should be like: "We do not cater to the man who goes to the theater to satisfy a social need for contact with...