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...artistic risks in the process. While Olmi seems to feel that the sheer homeliness of his technique amounts to blunt honesty, his aesthetic is every bit as disingenuous as that of a professional waif portraitist in Montmartre. All he has done is serve his picturesque peasants on a pretty platter so that rich people, from a safe distance, can get their fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peasant Soup | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Hill angered the White House. After conferring with top Carter aides, Democratic National Committee Chairman John C. White charged that the coalition was dividing the party. Said he: "The continued activities of people like the five Congressmen are going to almost surely hand over the presidency on a silver platter to John Connally or Ronald Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: His Rival Plays Tease | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...their own hustings, mostly to lecture at the three universities in the neighborhood: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Then he taps out a memo: "Lost. Alice has asked us all to check whether her thin black-handled Henckels knife went home by mistake on a cake platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Corn Bread and Great Ideas | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours to the Karuma Falls to be thrown to the crocodiles. Whenever a white was killed- Kisuule-Minge recalls about 50 such cases-Amin had the ears delivered to him on a platter. Kisuule-Minge remembers five Germans-three men and two women-being brought to the center. They were tied up, beaten and garroted and their bodies thrown into the Karuma. Once an attractive American woman was picked up from her hotel, accused of espionage and brought to the pink house. The next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Amin's Horror Chamber | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...meal, try a seafood dish or one of the omelettes. The omelettes come with fillings including shrimp, mushrooms and broccoli. The seafood is fresh and crispy. For $3-$4 you can eat Shrimp Louis, plump white shrimps on a bed of lettuce and eggs with dressing, or order a platter of fresh Crab Claws Matignon, very sweet and tender. And a real plus--Cafe Florian's lettuce isn't wilty or dark, and it's surprisingly fresh...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Chez Chic | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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