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...nouvelle cuisine can be found in some form in old cookbooks. And I know one thing. No matter what they say about wanting light food and liking new dishes, guests love the old tastes. When I make a blanquette, or marinated venison or any kind of stew, guests grab my hand in the dining room and practically get tears in their eyes. 'That was real food,' they...
...People are building on every vacant lot theycan grab," said Rosenoff. "Re-sale is very high,higher than in the past seven years. On MemorialDrive, the appreciation rate is up to 40 percent,which is unusual. Normally it is only about 20 to25 percent in Cambridge...
...words are only bearable when they accept responsibility for the creation of a narrative event--be it memories of masturbation or a teenager buying his first pair of pyjamas. When these infrequent reference points do emerge, they last only long enough for the reader to make a desperate grab at gaining understanding of Angelo's fiction before the memory fades or the reader--absorbed in the tales--chances upon a boy full of lead, upon more of the author's stylistic violence...
...THEM WHEN HE DISCOVERS how he has been used. But the riotous imaginations of Writers Robert T. Megginson and Gregory Fleeman don't stop there. They overplot to the point of incomprehensibility, and Director Robert Mandel's staging is often implausible. F/X is a fast-food movie: easy to grab, fun to consume, but loaded with empty calories and soon expelled from memory...
...find any painting in such a show that addressed itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature did not look simple. The painting was no botanical illustration. It was full of pictorial feeling and seemed only part factual, with the studied ineloquence, the refusal to grab a viewer's lapels, that one gets in Jasper Johns or Cy Twombly. Its drawing was casual, but intelligently so. It used botany obscurely, for some ulterior end--but what? And did it look better than it was for being surrounded by trash? To test that, one had to wait...