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...with that event. Implicit in the play is a great divide between superiors and inferiors, patricians and plebeians. However they err, the patricians are sanctified by wealth, birth and breeding. Whether they are openly envious or openly critical, the plebeians are content or resigned to being maids, manicurists or powder-room attendants. From the vantage point of 1973, one of the fascinations of The Women is that it is positively class-ridden...
...characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male's assumption that women are as much a conspiracy as a sex, and Mrs. Luce reveals that the conspiracy is centered on him-how to get a man and how to hold...
...chic refreshments. It began with perfectly mixed martinis, followed by a fine vintage French wine with the main course. With dessert, guests puffed the finest marijuana. Then, after coffee and cognac, the young hostess presented the evening's piece de resistance: a glass jar filled with a white powder. "Would anybody like a hit of coke?" she inquired casually, as if offering another drink. Indeed they would. Recalls one of the guests: "I was so wrecked by the time I left that I could barely find my way to the next party. But when I got there...
...schools of thought regarding pizza: the thick-crusters vs. the thin-crusters. Those of us who prefer eating pizza to eating bread with a little tomato sauce generally prefer a thin base of dough. Preparing such a pizza required consummate culinary skill; slightly undercooked pizza retains that grainy powder underneath and overcooked pizza has what I understand are called "burnt" areas. The chefs at Joe's (now on Linden street) walk this perilous tightrope and seldom fall -- and working with thin dough means shunning the net. Because he insists on a thick layer of dough, Mr. Schoen requires...
While the reservation plans were being approved, some of Crazy Horse's braves sold themselves to the cavalry as scouts in a war against another tribe. Unable to stomach his people's disloyalty, Crazy Horse decided to return to the Powder River country, which was unalloted Indian land...