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Instead of pressure, students in the graduating class of the country's Academy of Fine Arts fashion school feel utterly liberated about entering the job market after the crash. "Before it was 'What are you thinking going into design?' " says Rakel Solros as she put the finishing touches on her homework for the week - a jet black evening dress. "It may be harder to get the loan now, but everyone is prepared to do much more and make something real happen...
...media. Born in California, he began working in a Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant run by his mother, and after serving apprenticeships at top restaurants in France, arrived in New York City in the monied mid-'80s, attracting a lot of media attention when he opened his restaurant Rakel in 1986. But when the market crashed in 1987 and Rakel struggled, Keller was savaged in the press. "My credibility was low after Rakel failed. I was labeled the chef who couldn't control food or labor costs...
...valued primarily by chefs for its color, even though the beet's earthy flavor is anathema to many customers. In some places beets can't be given away, according to one chef in Dallas. However, they are glossing (and hopelessly muffling) ingredients such as lobster and ice cream at Rakel, and are adding heft to rabbit salad and halibut at Bouley, both in New York City...
...Henrik's old acting colleagues. One afternoon, following a rehearsal of the play, the dozing Henrik is awakened by Anna. They sit on an old sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink of a reverie, Rakel (Ingrid Thulin) appears to Henrik, to reprise a bitter interlude from a decade before. Rakel, past her prime as an actress, has been offered a small part in one of Henrik's earlier productions of A Dream Play. She flirts and quarrels; he tries...
Henrik seems in control of all his dreams, the ones he puts onstage as well as those popping out of his past and present. Just the memory of Rakel can make him feel a sense of loss, as he considers her promise destroyed by drink, abuse and self-hatred. Only Anna's threat to walk out on the play can rouse him to wrath, for she is betraying not just Strindberg or her fellow actors or the audience, but the holy Henrik. Like any other man, he is susceptible to the attentions of a strong, beautiful young woman; like...