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...succeeds admirably in analyzing the tastes, products, humors and quirks of each region. She proffers such delicate provincial dishes as dandelion salad, poularde en demi-deuil and sole with stuffed artichoke bottoms (preferably using the slippery little fish known in Bordeaux as "lawyers' tongues"), as well as such robust peasant offerings as potato pie, braised partridge with lentils, and stufatu, a Corsican beef stew with macaroni...
...supporting cast is uneven, Dotrice's Desdemona begins pallidly but grows in stature and Graeme Campbell is a robust and sympathetic Rodrigo when he forgets he's playing an idiot. But Aideen O'Kelly's Amilla is dowdy refugee form a detergent commercial, confusing ingenuousness with imbecility, and she is embarrassingly inadequate vocally in the last scene. And a special nod to Paticia Maurceri's grotesque, campy and mush-mouthed Bianca--the actress should be swiftly jettisoned...
...paeans are seldom graphic about the weapons' deadly effects. Usually the language is willfully neutral: one shell that spews out steel pellets is merely "useful to engage massed infantry at close quarters." But peddler's enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews who are able...
...wisecracking, shoot-from-the-lip chief inflation fighter. Back midst the ivied halls of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he was once dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and is now a professor of economics, Alfred Kahn, 63, has polished up his act. A robust bass, he regularly turns up in local Gilbert and Sullivan productions, playing the modern Major General in Pirates of Penzance, Ko-ko in The Mikado and Jack Point in Yeoman of the Guards. Asked to aid a local fund raiser, Kahn happily swapped his tweedy academic threads for the lounge-lizard...
...major drop in the economy. To the contrary, after a period of sluggishness, industrial production is expected to rebound sharply. TIME's Board of Economists,* which met last week in New York City, predicted that by the second half of 1982 business would be growing at a robust 4% annual pace. Alice Rivlin, the director of the Congressional Budget Office and a guest participant at the meeting, reported that her office is assuming a 4% annual economic expansion in the years 1983 and 1984. Said she: "We are quite optimistic about the outlook for the economy...