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...Britain, too, the gourmet must be willing to travel. Great British Cooking: A Well-Kept Secret (Random House; $15.50) somewhat exaggerates the paucity of three-star menus in the scept'red isle. It is no longer quite true, as the old saw had it, that the English have only three vegetables, two of them cabbage. However, English-born Jane Garmey roams far and wide to bag the better culinary hand-me-downs. Though a number of great Continental chefs left their imprint on upper-class English fare-Carême, Escoffier, Francatelli and Soyer all lived for years...
...warned him early on that it is a great burden to be a popular teacher, he says, and when asked for an interview he replied at first, "I'm not much interested." And some of his relative obscurity is a result of his field. But if Kelleher is a well-kept secret, word may be getting out; last year, for instance, his Yeats class had to change venues twice before it found large enough quarters...
...halfway through Act I, some of the singers switch from the nicely intelligible English translation back to the German libretto. From then on, this is a bilingual performance--and if some scheme is being followed to determine when the singers switch from English to German, it's a well-kept secret. Perhaps they were flipping coins. By the middle of the second act, the show's pace has slowed to a crawl, the scene changes are lengthy, and the production which began in an explosion of striking images and ideas subsides into formless chaos...
From the start, the game was physical, featuring hard hitting and aggressive loose ball play. The well-kept but sleek, regulation sized field, which Dartmouth resodded over the summer (and left untouched until Saturday), enabled the backs to run outside, opening up the action...
With impenitent nostalgia for their heyday, the prisoners still address one another by their former titles, such as "President" and "Minister." Their cells are equipped with air conditioners, refrigerators and TV sets. Among their favorite forms of exercise: regular tennis matches, played on a well-kept court. Such is the style of life to which deposed Strongman George Papadopoulos and members of the former Greek military junta have become accustomed inside Athens' Korydallos prison, where they have been serving sentences since 1975. Details of the systematic coddling of the notorious jailbirds are contained in a recollection to be published...