Word: tre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among some, however, there is considerable optimism about the Carter era. Notes Paul Delisle, maître d' of what he hopes will continue to be Washington's most "in" restaurant, the Sans Souci: "Once we had the Texan. He learned to eat fine French food. The Georgian-he can learn too." In his thick French accent, Delisle jokingly offers an outrageously far-out claim to kinship with the President-elect: "I am from Marseille, so Mr. Carter and I are both Southerners...
...siblings and sexual suitors are summoned up, often in hilarious detail, though they are mostly kept frozen at the edge of caricature by Stephanie's satiric perceptions. The author is at home in emigré salons and ancient country holdings-where the landscaping is by Le Nôtre and the new power mower is by John Deere. When the ancestral crypt, where Stephanie's father lies, gets too crowded, the family simply shifts the bones of those who had made "bad marriages." The flavor of refugee New York in the '40s, classy but cashless, also comes...
Controôle au Sol: JVH, Québec sol. Piste zéro six, vent zéro sept zéro à cinq, l'heure zéro deux cinq cinq, altimètre deux neuf neuf quatre. A la piste...
Balanchine first choreographed this mixed-media event for Téàtre de Mon te Carlo in 1925, shortly after he first met Ravel. Perhaps it would have been better to let the work retreat into decent obscurity. This new production is sumptuous by City Ballet standards, but the singers are nearly incomprehensible, the Daliesque sets poorly lit and the comic effects too often unfunny...
...Gaston Lenôtre, 54, France's dessert-maker sans pareil and its leading traiteur, a specialist in canapés, sandwiches and salads (he was in charge of all the lunches and desserts...