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...Well, they're just delicious. I also did abalone burgers, and I use soy sauce now, which I never used to. Also Chinese black beans, Tabasco sauce and an occasional chili pepper. It has freed me." As American chefs begin to surpass French counterparts as status symbols, many restaurateurs snap up baby-faced graduates such professional cooking schools as the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A.) Hyde Park, N.Y., Johnson & Wales Providence and the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Several of the professional cooking schools have waiting lists for entry and report three to six available jobs for every graduate...
...President Ferdinand E. Marcos, seven is a lucky number. Members of the 200-seat National Assembly were well aware of that last week as they witnessed the introduction of Cabinet Bill No. 7, the enabling legislation for snap presidential elections that the Filipino leader announced earlier this month. The bill proposed an unusual length for the campaign: 57 days. In place of the Jan. 17 election date that Marcos had initially suggested for the balloting, Bill No. 7 proposed another one: Feb. 7. Admitted the President's Political Affairs Minister, Leonardo Perez: "We are superstitious...
...fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap his surgical gloves, without the faithful's perfectly timed handclap. The portentous pauses in Rocky cry out for rude interpolations, so that the screen actors at times seem to be responding to directions from the audience. Before Frank can introduce his assistant Magenta, the crowd bleats, "What's your favorite...
...defies her politician father to become involved in the antiwar movement. Davis, 33, who co-wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction such a snap that she has already begun a second novel and has received offers to develop Home Front into a television movie. Naturally, Davis, who was featured in the 1981 TV movie For Ladies Only, has her eye on the leading role. Of course, if she needs any coaching for the part...
...will be an ambassador between you and Gorbachev, Mr. President," says Horowitz. Taking Wanda's arm, he introduces her. "And this is my wife. Did you know that she is the daughter of Toscanini?" As Reagan takes Wanda's hand, photographers snap the scene furiously...