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Witness this issue's special People coverage of the charity knockout joust held by Britain's royal family, in which the Windsor children displayed a decidedly unstately yen for slapstick. As is often the case, eye-catching photography was crucial to the choice of the subject. "The strength of a picture will often make or break an item," says Picture Researcher MaryAnne Golon. "We want the usual suspects doing unusual things...
...what farce needs, irresistible nuttiness. She is simply a whiner. Director Edwards (The Party, S.O.B.) is a great farceur, and he has plenty of classic comic conventions to play with: elegant cars and parties to crash, a decorous wedding to subvert. But glum Nadia defeats him. A film promising knockout knockabout comedy finally seems merely knocked...
...KLUX Klan took a knockout punch from an Alabama jury last week. An all-white Alabama jury...
...sharp orrery with strong cosmological overtones. There are also some rarities by lesser-known artists, notably the huge cubist- derived portrait of the workings of a watch by Gerald Murphy, the American expatriate on whom Scott Fitzgerald was to base his character of Dick Diver. . But compared with the knockout confidence of the work of engineers and designers represented in this show, the machine-esthetic painting of '20s and '30s America was mostly feeble, decent and derivative -- an appendage to a larger cultural framework...
...glowing Davis mural. Under the panels for each season are a few of Rosenzweig's most popular dishes for that time of year. Among her best: corn cakes with creme fraiche and caviars, chimney-smoked lobster, roast quail with savoy cabbage and kasha, wild mushroom tarts and such knockout desserts as macadamia nut tarts, lemon curd mousse and chocolate bread pudding. It would be a pity to cook by this book, thereby soiling pages with dabs of butter and egg yolk. Better photocopy recipes and keep the book on the coffee table, where it belongs...