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Reviewing Kael's latest book of movie reviews, When the Lights Go Down (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $18.95), in the Aug. 14 New York Review of Books, Adler not only calls the volume "worthless," she proceeds to incinerate Kael on the gravest imaginable grounds for a New Yorker writer: vulgarity, shoddy writing and sloppy thinking. Adler admits that until recently she had been an admirer of Kael's because "she was the critic everyone knew and talked about." But on closer analysis-something Adler feels that no one has accorded Kael's writing in years-a different conclusion...
GLADYS, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH by Hugo Vickers Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 308 pages...
FATAL FLOWERS by Rosemary Daniell Holt, Rinehart & Winston 293 pages...
...Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 194 pages...
...tending their stoves. Because they lack the fame and, probably, the inclination, France's women chefs stick close to their restaurants, which may explain why they run many of the best bistros in that country. Also, as Madeleine Peter points out in The Great Women Chefs of France (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 333 pages; $14.95), these talented femmes have generally been excluded from the cooking schools and restaurant brigades where the men learn their art. Their training has thus been on the job and their skills are less compartmentalized than those of the men. They may also be more competitive...