Word: rard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...severity and frequency of epileptic seizures in some patients, while researchers in Irvine, California, have found that some people with Alzheimer's are better able to perform mental tests after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes. But much of the supporting material is anecdotal. French actor Gérard Depardieu says Mozart helped to cure his childhood stutter. Eliad, the painter, received her treatment at an institute founded by a Paris physician named Alfred Tomatis, who pioneered the use of Mozart's music to treat all sorts of childhood disorders as well as adult ailments including depression. Few national authorities...
Uncorked Inventor: Gérard Michel, Laurent Villaume Availability: Now, $59.95 To Learn More: tasting-international.com Have you ever popped the cork on a fine Bordeaux or Chardonnay only to encounter a bitter taste and noxious aroma? About 5% of all bottled wine is tainted by a molecule in some corks known as trichloroanisole (TCA). Now a French company has devised a way to extract the TCA and restore the wine's bouquet. Pour the wine into the Dream Taste glass pitcher and insert a bunch of white plastic grapes, included in the kit. The faux fruit acts as a filter...
...newest, largest and most successful café-restaurants, called America. In a larger sense, that greeting is equally appropriate for style-conscious eaters who formerly restricted their gastronomic forays to France, where they devoted vacation times to seeking out the specialties of superstar chefs like Paul Bocuse, Michel Guérard and the Troisgros brothers. Now with equal zeal, many such adventurers are beginning to tour the U.S., eager to sample the highly publicized culinary creations that make up the new American cuisine...
...only after donning the mustache of his character, the mean-spirited neighbor, César Soubeyran. "All of a sudden I saw myself aged ten or 15 years and instead of trying to hold back time I was pushing it ahead." Montand also savored the interplay with Co-Star Gérard Depardieu, "one of the best actors in the world," and the delights of the literate script. "The dialogue is so rich ...with the kinds of sentences that, mmm, you can taste because it's so close to the truth, so far from artifice," he says. "This film shows the grandeur...
...exhibition's curator. "He was not only a leader of fashion in the '40s and '50s, but he was very influential in artistic life between the wars." Dior started off as an art gallery owner, exhibiting the work of Neo-humanist and Surrealist painters such as Christian Bérard and Salvador Dalí. The fête, which runs concurrently with the exhibit, also features organized walks through the spectacular garden of Dior 's childhood home. Other attractions include a vintage car rally, from May 13-15; a festival of films in which Dior dresses appear, from Sept...