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Here we go again -- another gore gourmand acting out fantasies of aggression for the grind-house trade. Well, no. For a start, Tarantino's films are energized not so much by violence as by its threat; it's in the air like a balloon ready to explode. More important, Tarantino, 31, sees movie violence as a vivid visual correlative for the internal agitation of urban America, for all those people who believe their lives are a pitched battle for self- preservation. If he romanticizes his gunmen, he also anchors them in vulnerability, stupidity and the blinkered loyalty...
...neither will gourmand mice will have any fun: No hamburger option for them. The only nutrition they'll receive is a high-class "prepared irradiated mouse diet" prepared to keep all mice healthy and free of infection...
...People aren't eating out less," says Ronald Paul, president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based market-research firm. "They are just seeking better value." If, as the French gourmand Brillat-Savarin observed, you are what you eat, these days Americans are down-home, comfortable, just plain folks -- but not to be taken for granted...
Welles was also a conspicuous womanizer and gourmand. He was, writes Brady, "a man who would think nothing of starting off a meal with a bottle of Moet et Chandon just for himself, followed by a Boudin Noir aux Pommes (blood sausage with apples), then a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau to help wash down a Terrine de Canard and a huge porterhouse steak, and finally a Mousse a l'Armagnac, followed by four or five glasses of Calvados, and several cups of very black coffee...
...even in Seattle, not all culinary creativity meets with equal success. Take Le Gourmand, which despite its French name offers the local cuisine. Run for three years by Bruce Naftaly, 34, and Robin Sanders, 35, the restaurant produces lackluster food and some needless extra irritants. The tone of service is both chummy and didactic. An unsmilingly intent preppie waiter offers the "observation" that the regular coffee has far more flavor than the espresso. As for ice cream, one can have it "nestled" beside a poached pear, but in the waiter's opinion, "it is good enough to stand...