Word: lightheartedness
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In France, it is said, there is only one way to make a bechamel sauce; in Italy, salsa bolognese can be interpreted 50 ways. As Waverley Root observed in The Food of Italy, "While French cooking has become professional cooking even when it is executed by amateurs, Italian cooking has...
This is fine, lighthearted stuff, the kind of escapade that tastes good later with a few beers. Sailors talk cheerfully about buoys disastrously missed in fog, and climbers about snow-cave bivouacs that lasted for days. Still, the risk takers know that sailors drown and mountaineers fall. There is a...
And similarly throughout this "romantic comedy," the humor is very much divorced from the romance--a division that works to enhance both elements of the film. The tension between his boyish high school existence and his mature sexual involvement focuses Jonathan to reconcile his two halves; eventually he becomes both...
Each show begins with brief filmed reports on such goings-on as the opening of a new movie or a particularly star-studded party. Occasionally there is a lighthearted ''exclusive" like (hold your breath) a never-before-seen glimpse behind Johnny Carson's desk. The second section...
Californians Dennis Conner, 40, a computerized competitor, and Tom Blackaller, 43, a lighthearted sailor, are old and dedicated rivals. In paramilitary command of Freedom, Conner defended the Cup so scientifically and staunchly in 1980 (43-4 in races against other defenders, 4-1 over Australia for the series) that his...