Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back at the stove, Fussell provides wise and workable recipes for items as various as cornfield peas and coconut rice, Owendaw hominy bread, chocolate crunch cookies and sweet and sour Christmas fish. And she provides enough lore to divert the amateur; if history is your dish, this is your book...
...chili sauce is a lovely accompaniment to barbecued meats and perfect on an outdoor buffet. The fried Beijing-style dumplings guo tie would be just right with a steaming borscht and a nice change from piroshki. Small fried won tons are a refreshingly different finger food, and the gently sweet miniature split-pea cakes favored by the Empress Dowager Ci Xi would be welcome with ice cream and after-dinner coffee...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet...
...complicated process of pleating the canvas and flooding it with runnels of diluted color, wash after wash, never a brush mark in sight. He "drew" his shapes by manipulating the effects of gravity on liquid. This certainly eliminated the traces of the expressive hand and gave his surfaces a sweet, frictionless clarity. It was also chancy in the extreme, since it courted the possibility of turning the image into a decorative Rorschach blot. But Louis destroyed much of his own work, editing heavily, and the sense of risk in the surviving paintings gave them an intriguing tension, as though their...
Most of the performances in Scapine are well-drawn exaggerations, as well they should be. Kerry Osborne, as Scapine's fellow servant, is particularly funny. Disguised as Hyacintha's vengeful brother, he works himself into a frenzied mock duel which is a standout. Valerie Beck is likewise sweet and charming...