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...Last Supper. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, the Cuban director whose Memories of Underdevelopment was popular in this country, directed this 1976 tale of a slaveowner overcome with "religious humility" who invites 12 black slaves to dinner on Holy Thursday, and casts himself in the role of Christ. Critics have labeled the film a bitter satire, which turns violent and moralistic when the slaves disobey their overseer the next day, trusting in the "magnanimity" of the Count to defend them. He doesn't. This is the New England premiere, and is highly recommended...
...halfhearted pretense? There is a certain staginess to the place; the grounds and buildings, donated by a rich and eccentric old lady are too grand for the modest faculty and student body. In addition the donor has imposed some peculiar conditions-evening dress must be worn at supper, for instance-that have never matured to become traditions. Boys and masters repeatedly assure one another that Dorset really is a good school...
...evenings after supper I hate him least, when the rheum in his blind eyes looks less like weakness, an impassive twilight severity in his backbone. He sits alone as I am alone, feeling the heat of the sand warm the sun-fallen...
...duty that night were Lt. John O'Donoghue, Bob McCleery, John (Spike) Lawless, Fred (Bunky) Bokuniewicz, and Fred Ikels. They managed to make it through supper without being interrupted, but around 9 p.m. the calls started coming in fast...
Along with Mousse of Scallops, Poached Striped Bass, and Soupe de Poisson, the pair prepared a Sauce Gribiche, a variation on mayonnaise which contains mustard. "If you use the old-fashioned ball-park mustard, you get something that tastes like a church supper," Claiborne said...