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Despite being repeatedly rejected from Archibald McLeish’s poetry workshop, he was able to take a fiction-writing class with Albert Guerard, where he drafted a short story about a former basketball player named Flick...
...there's a similarity between an American painter of sublime, theatrical Western scenery like Albert Bierstadt and an Australian one like the more modest Eugene von Guerard, it isn't accidental. Both received the same training at the Dusseldorf Academy and acquired skill at the tight, glossy, detailed rendering of grandiose scenes. Von Guerard joined the gold rush to Australia in 1852 but failed as a prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted...
...said Owens, who has been working on two hours of sleep a night. "We got out with our lives, and the rest of it we can rebuild if we keep helping each other like we have been." Her 92-year-old father, Willard Guerard, had to be rescued by helicopter from his farm near East Grand Forks. Asked where his daughter, who has gone from virtual anonymity to daily appearances on national television, got her wits and her will, he said, "From me." As a girl, he added, Pat farmed potatoes with her dad, and feeling the earth in your...
...most fashionable spas in France now offer thalassotherapy, a kilo-cutting regimen that combines diet, exercise and extensive-sea water massage. Furthermore, Gallic dieting is far from dull. Michel Guerard, the famed chef who helped popularize the low-calorie cuisine minceur, lures patrons to his spa at Eugénie-les-Bains with a gourmet diet (1,000 calories a day) that eliminates fats and starches without losing flavor...
...dinners, supervised in turn by Vergé, Guérard and Bocuse, were crowned by such main courses as fondue de gigot d'agneau aux aubergines, volatile de Bresse and aiguillette de caneton au vin de Graves, for a total of 19 courses. Guerard's meal was adjudged the best of the trip by Gault, who gave it 19¾ points out of a possible 20. Fortunately, reported TIME'S gourmet-onboard, George Taber, dinner was over before a storm hit the Gulf of Genoa, sending many of the guests to their cabins...