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BABETTE'S FEAST Cooking is a metaphor for art in Gabriel Axel's wise, deeply ironic and richly realized adaptation of Isak Dinesen's story...
...give cover to each other in handling this diplomatic bombshell. On one point they are already united: Israel will not alter its refusal to talk with the P.L.O. Both parties are bracing for a bumpy time with Washington. Ever the optimist, Peres suggested that the U.S. will soon wise up to its mistake and back out of a bad judgment. The dour Shamir offered little but bitterness last week...
...least the ones in which we picture ourselves, alone in the office, dreaming of cool blonds and stiff whiskeys (or cool whiskey and stiff blonds). Raymond Chandler was ghostwriter to the sound track our lives so often imitate. The figure of the tough-but-tender hero cracking wise to cover up his soft spots; the lethal blond and the flick-knife dialogue on which the movies (and so the rest of us) still feed -- all of them seem to have been copyrighted by the onetime oil executive who only began writing at the age of 45. In seven novels...
...Jones may bear the name of a famous railroad engineer, but last year he acted more like a wise ship captain. When the Boston Celtic ship started to sink, Jones jumped overboard...
Virtually invisible to radar, the B- 2 is a military landmark. But what does it threaten more -- the Soviet Union or the federal budget? -- A small army of would- be wise men are proffering advice to President- elect George Bush. -- Why Secretary of State George Shultz threw himself into a one- man jihad that kept Yasser Arafat from speaking to the United Nations...