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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back an hour so that he could have a Sainte Geneviève soufflé." An ardent addict is Ava Gardner, who once called the restaurant at 11 p.m., when all the cooks had gone home, and asked if she could have dinner. "Certainement," said Terrail, who proceeded to cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Eiffel Rival | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...Shepard's play is a difficult one to transform, and an even more difficult one to watch. One can enjoy the intervals of comedy and relish certain moments of dialogue, but even perfect execution wouldn't lend clarification to Shephard's meaning...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Bringing in the Sheaves | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

...there any hope for the WFL when it starts with the centerpiece of the dullest football team ever created? Csonka the bulldozer was the instrument of this death by perfect execution. Would you pay $9 a game for a package of seven season and three exhibition games to watch a bulldozer clear palmetto scrub for a supermarket parking lot? This was equivalent to the thrill of watching the Miami Dolphins sweep to their last two championships. All their games were sold out--who could watch it? It was the space program serving up Apollo...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...Harvard's field) and trailed 6-5. Big, and I do mean big, Mel Seibolt, the designated hitter, stepped up to the plate against Harvard hurler Norm Walsh and clouted one into left-center. The Northeastern team bounded from the dugout to greet the seeming hero, only to watch Don Driscoll haul it in by the fence for just another long...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Northeastern Nine Bites Dust in Ninth | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...touch as the forecast of Gatsby's and Daisy's ill-fated love; or scenes of Gatsby and Daisy gamboling through sun-dappled gardens spliced with shots of cooing geese as lovers' bliss; and what of the countless times the camera peers through Daisy's diaphonous hatbrim to watch her kissed--stolen kisses? And there is more of this comic strip stuff, too much more. The camera injects twinkling into everybody's eyes--or are the actors so starstruck by their roles? Karen Black yaws her mouth open like a catcher's mit and rolls out her O's more...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Red, White and Black Beauty | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

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