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Scottie Templeton is one such com pulsive performer. To him, silence is gelding and only two sounds are pleasing: his own voice and his listener's laughter. As the central character, comic relief, raisonneur and raison d'être of Bernard Slade's play Tribute, Scottie kept the jokes flowing as his world collapsed like a burlesque banana's baggy pants. On Broadway, as incarnated by Jack Lemmon, Scottie was a sympathetic soul. With the footlights acting as a DMZ between character and playgoer, Scottie could be abstracted and romanticized: he was the fatally ill trouper...
...food in an American idiom. In this, with Swiss Chef Josef ("Seppi") Renggli, they have succeeded admirably; their prize recipes bloom in all of The Four Seasons (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). Unlike many books by more celebrated restaurateurs, The Four Seasons trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms...
...regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison d'être of Central America in the minds of most Americans, who saw the "banana republics" as a comic-opera fiefdom for U.S. commerce...
...told agents that after the fund raiser. Industrialist Leopold Wyler received guests at his home, where cocaine was used by what she described as "the White House people." Wyler, founder of TRE Corp., a Beverly Hills aerospace firm, was Carter's finance chairman in the 1976 California primary campaign, but has since joined a dump-Carter movement. Wyler said he had suspected that coke was used at his party, but insists that he "was very displeased with what seemed to be going on." He said he did not see Jordan or any of the other Carter associates using...
...specialists have appropriated too much of their lives. Such an individual sense might help to fill the vacuum of national purpose in which Americans have operated for some time. The exclusive pursuit of the good life does not ultimately add up to much of a raison d'être...