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MOST INNOVATIVE RESTAURANT CONCEPT At Primi in West Los Angeles, the menu consists of primi piatti, first dishes that are appetizer-size portions of new-wave Italian specialties. In this sparkling café, with its black lacquer and mirror trim, a meal may include samplings of tiny clams in a garlicky tomato broth, tagliatelle in a meat and porcini sauce, chunks of snowy fish steamed with vegetables, duck breast rolled around a pureed olive "caviar." It is in relaxed contrast to Owner Piero Selvaggio's pricey, well-established Valentino...
Starker completed the concert with two encores, the sarabande from Bach's fifth suite for unaccompanied cello and then a showpiece written by Piatti. The very demanding Piatti, reinforced what everyone already knew--that Starker is a marvelous technician...
...NOCK FAMILY CIRCUS, by Ursula Huber, illustrated by Celestino Piatti (Atheneum; $4.95). The behind-the-scenes story of a small European traveling circus, illustrated with vigor and detail by the famous Swiss poster artist...
...certain phenomena which have been found to precede them. These are slight tiltings of the ground, as detected in Japan by Inouye and Sugiyama; changes in the force of gravity, as reported from Germany by Tomaschek and Schaffernicht; and disturbances of electromagnetic radiation, as observed by Italy's Piatti. No successful forecast has resulted from any of these observations. The other approach is to take cognizance of possible contributing causes of quakes, such as the tidal pulls on Earth of heavenly bodies. Herbert Janvrin Browne, a heterodox Washington long-range weather forecaster, thinks the high frequency of quakes this...
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