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Meats included stag, gazelle, kid, lamb, mutton, squab and a bird called tarru. Frequently mentioned seasonings included onions, garlic and leeks, while stews were often thickened with grains, milk, beer or animal blood. Salt was sometimes mentioned...
...even survived his spectacular flameout after Watergate to become an elder statesman of the Republican Party. But his role in history remains enigmatic. An unlikelier politician would be hard to concoct: reserved, secretive, glowering, as awkward at backslapping and glad-handing as an android at a stag party. Yet he became the most durable public figure in postwar American life, five times a candidate for national office and four times a winner. How could this have happened? The question can be interpreted as friendly or hostile; anyone interested in the recent past must ask it and look for answers...
...even Salle's most devout fans seem able to say what his pictures are about, for all their literary overtones. They are laden with sexual imagery ) -- Salle's work seems to owe a lot to a brief stint he did as a layout man for the porn magazine Stag in the mid-'70s -- but that imagery comes out as congealed, monotonous sleaze. Salle's nudes are mere signs for bimbos, not erotic presences, and their popularity may be linked to the cynicism of their sexual politics...
Written by the 18th-century playwright Carlo Gozzi, The King Stag is the story of the king of Seredippo, Deramo (Thomas Derrah), who is searching for the woman who will love him for himself and become his deserving queen. With the aid of an animate Buddha statue, Deramo screens all his prospective brides for their honesty...
...ENSUING DRAMA, which includes a hallucinatory hunt in a magical forest for a stag with golden horns and a giant, kite-like bear, is poetic drama. The images are so pure and bewitching that even a love scene between Angela and the puppet of an aged, decrepit man operated by three people is humourously touching...