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...cult movie director and a cow wait placidly on a busy Los Angeles street corner on a sunny autumn day. A giant image of Laura Dern's face printed with the words FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION looms beside them. The director delivers an encomium on cheese. The scene is surreal enough to be from a David Lynch movie, and it is, a two-minute film that has been downloaded more than 50,000 times on YouTube since it was posted Nov. 9. The director of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks didn't direct this one; a couple of guys named Nate...
...restaurants are to Valencia what sushi bars are to Tokyo or pizza parlors are to Naples. We give you four of the best: LA PEPICA This venerable beachfront restaurant, tel: (34-96) 371 0366, is in its 107th year and remains a Valencian institution. Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer. RACO DEL TURIA The traditionalist's choice, Raco del Turia, tel: (34-96) 395 1525, serves paella and other time-honored Valencian dishes without a whit of concession to modern mores or methods. A cozy and intimate setting. CASA...
...PEPICA This venerable beachfront restaurant, tel: (34-96) 371 0366, is in its 107th year and remains a Valencian institution. Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer...
...upstage Vladimir Horowitz in recital is to fall off the stage. Last week at the White House, the eminent pianist, 82, had just finished a dazzling performance, his first in the U.S. since his triumphant return to the Soviet Union last April, and the President was delivering an encomium linking the worlds of music and superpower diplomacy. As Nancy Reagan listened, the leg of her chair slipped off the edge of the platform, and she pitched into a row of potted yellow chrysanthemums. "I'm all right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted to liven things up." She regained...
...thesis, “Eulogy and Encomium: The Dual Purpose on the Normannicus Draco,” Ciardiello examined a relatively unstudied medieval Latin poem...