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TECHNICIAN: No, sir...
...Luciano Pavarotti and has the artistic temperament to match. Banchet was trained in the great restaurants of France, including that of Paul Bocuse, the high priest of la nouvelle cuisine. He commands his array of convection ovens, cannibal-size stockpots and giant food processors with the same authority that Sir Georg Solti displays when conducting the Chicago Symphony. "It's like an orchestra," Banchet explains, "where every piece must play its part...
...early last week bearing Britain's "final" bargaining position, which Pérez de Cuéllar passed on directly to Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Ros. Late the following evening the Argentines came to the U.N. tower with Galtieri's response to the British ultimatum. Near midnight, Sir Anthony made his now familiar trek to the 38th-floor suite, where Pérez de Cuéllar translated the Argentines' Spanish-language text for him. The text and an official U.N. translation were sent to the British mission the next day. The biggest problem at that delicate...
...advice from time to time -a bit of effrontery I would normally rebuff if it were not that the whole affair is just for a movie called Lovesick due out next year. Dudley Moore, 47, is the analyst and Elizabeth McGovern, 20, is a delightful choice as his patient. Sir Alec Guinness, 68, is playing me. Since childhood, I have always dreamed of Redford or Newman in, the part, but who am I to analyze a producer's motives...
...take us farther, more vividly, than we would have the courage or knowledge to go if we were traveling in body, not just in mind. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in ragtop native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca...