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Prunes & Poisson. Julia Child learned her own lesson relatively late in life. Born in California, she went to Smith and did not know a choucroute garnie from a pate en croute until she began living in Paris in 1948, where her husband was attached to the U.S. Embassy. Having no children and little to do, Mrs. Child began to study the cuisine of France under a chef who once worked with Auguste Escoffier. Soon she had established her own cooking school-Ecole des Trois Gourmandes-with two French women as partners, who still run it. After twelve years of preparation...
...amateur painters to have Andrew Wyeth giving a weekly drill in sketching. She delivers her points with a kind of muddleheaded nonchalance that invites others to feel that if she can do it, anybody can. As she putters over items like roast goose with a stuffing of pate-filled prunes or a simple mousseline de poisson a la marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper." She even says "eek" on occasion, when things go wrong; but nothing really troubles...
...described as an actor always on the verge of being discovered. Quinn has elected to discover himself. "I like what's happening to me now for the first time," he says. "It's the great, wonderful, lovely luxury of learning to think." His language has become pure pate de Strasberg. He delves down into the characters he plays until he is scraping the nails in their soles. "A doctor takes a responsibility when he so much as looks at your throat." he says. "I have to dissect the whole man. I'm responsible for how he walks...
...Freshman Register. Soonor or later he flings down the Radcliffe Freshman Register, and stomps off into the sun-embroidered hills. Whether those hills be the rolling plains of the Cambridge Common or the path to some other aviary, depends in good measure on the sophistication, the savoir faire, the pate de foie gras with which the male approaches those imperspicuous pages...
...tyranny. Muses the novelist's dictator: "Let's face it. Gaul has not been subjugated. The people want political reform. All the people want freedom and hate slavery." In case anybody missed the point, Author Bochenski described Caesar as a "bald playboy"-a clear allusion to the pate and personality of Premier Cyrankiewicz...