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...Pr??te pour le Voyage,” or “Ready for the Trip,” a woman is stretched out horizontally in a coffin-like shape. Cauvin said in her gallery talk that slaves were also kept in coffin-sized spaces. She said the bright yellow hue covering the woman’s face was a bad omen, the color of drama, stress and death...
Oleana’s menu offers a pre-appetizer course comprised of pr??t à manger items, described aptly by the server as “tasty little things to eat with bread.” The warm olives ($4) are a rather safe choice, though not a particularly rewarding one. They were small and not very meaty or tasty, served with crusty, airy and equally unexciting bread. A more adventurous choice of spicy carrot puree ($3) might be worth the risk...
...wine porcini sauce ($14). The dish is filling and zesty, and probably best eaten in the appetizer portion ($7). The other vegetarian option— a five-course tasting menu with dessert ($38)—often includes the dumplings as well as a variety of meatless pr??ts, appetizers and entrée accompaniments...
...cardiac case from childhood, Vian decided to ignore his illness with a vengeance. He was a jazz musician, a composer, an engineer, an actor and a playwright as well as a novelist. Friend of writers like Sartre and Ionesco, habitué of the caves of Saint-Germain-des-Pr??s, Vian was generally considered the prince of the enfants terribles of French existentialism. His death in 1959 at the age of 38 was sudden, but it could hardly be called unexpected. While he was alive, the only one of his books that sold was a semi-pornographic novel that...
...Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pr??ckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tverlin, artist-spectator of the tragicomedy; Landholzer. madman or genius, who has escaped from the world into an asylum...