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...Bastille, Le Verre Volé near the canal St. Martin and Le Baratin in the 20th arrondissement. In New York City, Yuva, Bette and Bao 111 in Manhattan and Ici and 360 in Brooklyn feature natural selections on their wine lists. Good representatives can also be found at Crémant and Le Pichet in Seattle, the Slanted Door in San Francisco and Lou in Los Angeles...
...Harvard is not scared at the prospect of this tough schedule. It has its first victory under its belt, and is expecting mant more to follow...
...wait a minute. It's 1962; the New Frontier has been proclaimed. As Woolsey heads to Key West, Florida, to preview his latest epic, Mant (half- man, half-ant and all knockoff of cult classics like The Fly and Them!), he and his works appear to have reached a new frontier of their own -- total cultural irrelevancy. Except for one thing: the Cuban missile crisis is on, and suddenly the brave new world is actually contemplating a disaster beyond Woolsey's most profitable dreams. It's a nicely imagined coincidence, and from it Joe Dante has fashioned a neat little...
Matinee also offers a dislocating representation of Mant's teenage audience. Among them are a straight arrow shunned by his schoolmates, a fast girl, a juvenile delinquent -- the Gidget crowd, in short. A good point is scored about the seepage between the realities of adolescent life and the ways it is portrayed in the media. Finally, Matinee assaults the general goofiness of American life in the period -- bomb shelters, duck-and-cover air-raid drills, general prudishness and even stupid nutritional beliefs...
...sparkling wine used for the toasts (Schramsberg Crémant Demi-sec 1981) lacked luster. But the California red (Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon 1978) was a western rainbow, smooth and joyous. The beef farci en croũte was a might overdone, but the candy sculpture of birds and flowers (all edible) that decorated the dessert servings was exquisite...