Word: souffle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Rappeneau, 33, has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon soufflé. They and their fellow farceurs prove that in the right hands the flip side of war and the flop side of marriage can still be made fresh and funny...
...stout married member of Hadassah and begs her to let him view again a most intimate mole, in hopes of recovering the lost ecstasy of that first exposure to sexuality. What is ludicrous about this effaces what is poignant. The third and most effectively comic playlet, Orange Soufflé pits a "Polack whore" against her monthly client, an 88-year-old tycoon: she is hurt that he fails to recognize her social graces...
...hand-tatted by a 15-year-old Rochester girl; a cake plate lovingly decorated by an elderly woman in the Midwest. Luci has also reaped a harvest of gifts from two bridal showers-one in Waukegan, the other in Washington. At the latter, the bride-to-be received enough soufflé dishes to swamp the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. Now the future Mrs. Nugent will have to learn to cook a souffl...
Pickled okra. Spinach soufflé. Double divinity. Et, mon Dieu, ze bar-bé-cue! Escoffier would have turned in his grave. Last week White House Chef René Verdon, who is only mortal, turned in his apron instead...
Breeding a race horse is like baking a soufflé: you find a good recipe, follow it exactly-and heaven only knows what the result will be. Mating a mare named Geisha to a stallion named Polynesian may result in 1) a Native Dancer, who won 21 out of 22 races, or 2) a Noble Savage, who never won a race at all. August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling...