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They say that the recipe for a Hungarian omelet begins, "First, you steal a dozen eggs," and when Marlene Dietrich came on to sing at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino, the world's most professional Hungarian was sitting at a ringside table with her photographer. The world's sexiest sexagenarian had on a skintight, flesh-colored gown so diaphanous that her contract forbade pictures during the performance, but as Zsa Zsa Gabor told it, "My cameraman was so overcome by Marlene's beauty that he asked if I thought she would mind being photographed. I told...
...belong to the stars," explains Kiesler. "We are related to them in just a matter of intervals." His objective is continuity in space, in which no art work would exist by itself, frozen away from man's activity. In fact, his wife says that "whether eating an omelet or filling out his income tax, everything is space and continuity." "Museums today look like laundromats," he says of paintings unrelated on the walls, like separate peepholes into separate worlds. Says he: "Space is something that cannot be looked at through a keyhole...
...French and American flour are milled differently; in France butter is made with matured cream, while in the U.S. it is all sweet, some of which is lightly salted.) Typically, seven pages are used to explain, with diagrams, the athletic technique for making a simple omelet...
...Omelet Period. Among those who can afford it, the new impulse is: when in doubt, cater. The kind of entertainment offered varies across the country. A Washington, D.C., firm called Parties Unlimited has about a dozen basic-package parties, ranging in theme from Prehistory (with paper dinosaurs as individual favors) to Outer Space (a launching pad with rocket balloon for centerpiece). Last November it supplied the circus decorations for Caroline and John Kennedy Jr.'s joint birthday party at the White House. Average cost for a complete party, including extras, for 20-24 children...
...York children are no longer interested in hot dogs, hamburgers or toasted cheese sandwiches for party fare. "Today it's the omelet period." reports Caterer Rudolph Stanish. "They've become the chic thing, either plain or a combination of bacon, caviar, mushrooms, something like that. The six-year-olds prefer tiny jelly omelets." He sighed: "And. of course, there is always some child who will request a truffle." Stanish, whose parties can handle from 60 to 150 children and can cost anywhere from $35 to $500, often provides a dance team (who twist and then teach...