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...works at the United Nations, on a recent visit found that her carrots were too hard and that they had an unreal "American look." But she enjoyed the rest of her meal so much that she vowed to return because the restaurant "deserved to be called French." The splendid menu at the Culinary School of Kendall College in Evanston, Ill., which serves specialties like roast quail stuffed with duck sausage and hazelnuts, receives raves from Stewart Koppel, a retired businessman, who drives three hours round trip with his wife Sadelle for dinner. Says he: "We keep coming back because...
...whole, "You the Mayor?" works well. It provides splendid portraits of city officials--particularly the giant Ed Crane and the often preposterous Al Vellucci, the independent Independent. It explains clearly and eloquently the problems of being an elected official in a city like Cambridge, where councillors have "accountability without authority...
...Schama's splendid recounting soon convinces us, however, that much of what we thought we knew is wrong, a collection of Hollywood versions of 19th century romances: Leslie Howard as "that demmed elusive Pimpernel," or Ronald Colman doing a "far, far better thing" by accepting the fate prescribed by Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Schama's reality is very different from the legends...
CAFE CROWN. This revival is not much of a play, but Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Bob Dishy head a splendid cast that adroitly and affectionately recalls the Manhattan heyday of Jewish theater...
...other two when they started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family that moved a lot) may be unremarkable enough, which could account for his strenuous efforts to keep them from public consumption. But no band that makes music as spooky and splendid as Orange Crush and Hairshirt (two of Green's outstanding cuts) could ever be considered boring, not even potentially. The band's considerable heft and impact reside where they properly belong: in the group's driven, likably demented music, with its passages of unexpected lyricism and its lyrics full of muted...