Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range and subtlety, French cooking is the best in the world, and Escoffier may well rank France's most celebrated gastronomic names. He lacked the lavish glamor of Caréme, but surpassed him in austere art. He lacked the wit of Brillat-Savarin, but Brillat-Savarin was more gourmet than cook. He lacked the temperament of the great 17th century chef, Vatel, but was more imaginative. Vatel committed suicide, impaling himself on his sword because the sole did not arrive in time for an important dinner. When asked what he would have done in Vatel's place...
...Dinner Party, by Gretchen Fin-letter. An entertaining martini of a novel with a lemon-twist of real wit about the more fashionable reaches of Commuter-land (TIME, June...
...same man and with the slow drift of the days, her panic subsides, breaks out, subsides again and finally softens to surrender. Italy's Rossano Brazzi complements Kate's artistry every step of the way. As a married but amorous art dealer, he plays her lover with wit, affection and-when necessary-a matching anger: "You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat," he cries. " 'No,' you say, 'I want beefsteak.' My dear girl, you are hungry . . . Eat the ravioli...
Tying for probably the longest distance covered are Dudley C. Lewis and family and Hart de Wit Wood. Both groups are from the Hawaiian Islands...
...Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch the Mexican comic pantomimist, Cantinflas, fight a bull with nothing sharper than his wit...