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...this week's story, which was supervised by Senior Editor Martha Duffy, Sheraton received help from some willing gourmets. San Francisco Bureau Chief William Blaylock, who reported on the California culinary renaissance, had come there straight from that mecca of world-class cuisine, Paris. Says Blaylock: "My appreciation for simpler, 'reborn' American food emerged unhesitatingly, in large part because of my three years of wading through classic cassoulets, terrines and flaming crêpes...
...alike have recognized that Dream is much more than a slapstick farce of lovers tangling in a green glade. Its narrative blends wars of the sexes, of social classes, of generations, even a war between the everyday and the supernatural. The play has become a summit that virtually every world-class director seeks to scale...
...them. Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston and William Wyler all directed World War II docs. Robert Altman made his feature-film debut in 1957 with The James Dean Story. Martin Scorsese has made nearly as many documentaries as fiction features. (His study of Bob Dylan premieres on PBS in September. He is also in talks to do a film on Airbus.) Such notables as Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Taylor Hackford and Michael Apted still shuttle from one form to the other. Werner Herzog, the world-class German auteur, has completed three superb docs--The White Diamond, Wheel of Time...
...almost forgotten human values and social obligations. Young people can't even plan to get married because of the extremely high cost of living. If married, they dare not start a family, owing to the cost of bringing up a child. The university produces good test takers but not world-class techies ready to take up challenging and innovative tasks in today's global environment. Suresh Kumar Parappurath Bangalore, India...
...almost forgotten human values and social obligations. Young people can't even plan to get married because of the extremely high cost of living. If married, they dare not start a family, owing to the cost of bringing up a child. The university produces good test takers but not world-class techies ready to take up challenging and innovative tasks in today's global environment. Suresh Kumar Parappurath Bangalore, India Pope John Paul II Although the Pope would have understood the worldwide sense of loss at his death [April 11], I do not believe he would have viewed this outpouring...