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Taking a leaf from some outdated p.r. manual, Saddam Hussein went on the airwaves last week in a miscalculated attempt to revise his image and turn up the pressure on his enemies. He should have known better. His crude hypocrisy of fondling children may help convince the Iraqi masses that their self-styled % Knight of the Arab World is not such a bad guy. But it was testimony to his isolation that he believed such a transparent performance would move the West...
...Varenne Pratique by Anne Willan (Crown; $60), the Briton who in 1975 founded the famous Paris cooking school La Varenne. This is a how-to book more than a book of recipes, although Willan has scattered many simple recipes throughout the technical sections of her well-illustrated manual. In one of the most instructive sections, double-page illustrations show the kinds of meat cuts typically available both in the U.S. and France. I have often wondered just how to butterfly a leg of lamb when, at the last moment, I have had to settle for the whole leg. Eight quick...
...manual History and Literature party inmid-May, Robertson received a department award forexcellence in her thesis work. The presentation ofher honor, however, followed the announcement ofanother pair of departmental accolades...
...sitting on a goldmine. By exposing all the intrigue, duplicity and sex of running Harvard University, Bok could guarantee himself a place on the bestsellers' list--and the lecture tour--for years to come. Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's The University: An Owner's Manual would pale in comparison to Bok's The University: Tower of Lust. Odds...
Still, you should listen up about Longtime Companion. For it is a splendidly bitchy comedy, The Women crossed with The Big Chill. Also a soap opera, a horror movie and a how-to manual on coping with catastrophe. On a small budget, writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (who teamed just as productively on the Broadway comedy Prelude to a Kiss) have created a beguiling panorama. It spans the '80s, a decade that, for gay men and those who love them, took a fatal tailspin from high camp to tragedy. The film is a juggling act -- of characters, attitudes...