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...Halleluia! This premature Lent musci is succeeded by a frothy, exuberant and brilliant Mardi-Gras "Carnival." Clapton finally gets a move on. Though the song palls after the umpteenth kaleidoscope whirl around the muscial merry-go-round you hope again that next time, on the next track, you'll win a real prize...
...dwindling few, the good life is still dictated by the exclusionary standards of an antebellum aristocracy. The great Mardi Gras balls of New Orleans are reserved for the private delectation of the old Creole coterie. Charleston's St. Cecilia Society demands stiffer credentials of a would-be member than the upper-crustiest men's club in London. But in most of the South, as one historian has observed, noblesse oblige has yielded to bourgeoisie oblige-even at the country club, traditionally the most closely guarded bastion of upper-class Southern Waspdom. Richmond's Country Club of Virginia...
...some very cultivated palates, however, yogurt's main virtue is its taste. Gourmet Craig Claiborne says it is "a sensational ingredient for cooking." Food Critic Gael Greene cautions that it cannot be compared with foie gras, or homemade butter-pecan ice cream. But she says that she breakfasts on yogurt "every disciplined morning," adding, "yogurt is definitely a best friend -but not a lover...
Marriage. Altogether, the master of minceur has perfected some 150 low-calorie dishes. He admits that some French specialties simply do not have a minceur equivalent-calf s liver, for example, dries out when cooked a la vapeur, and extravagances like foie gras are obviously not duplicable. Guérard's extraordinary accomplishment has been to create something close to a parallel French cuisine. Says Dr. Georges Halpern, vice president of the French Gastronomical Medical Society: "Guérard has a genius for satisfying the upper part of the body-the tongue, eyes and mind -without filling...
...time is Mardi Gras. The place is an undertaker's parlor that looks rather like a medieval cloister. The hero is an undertaker named Herman Starr (Pat Hingle) who jests at death as if he never felt the wound. Actually, he feels it very deeply since his 15-year-old daughter Monica (Deborah Offner) may die at any moment. She was born a blue baby with "a hole in her heart...