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...meatloaf-and-mashed-potatoes theme so fashionable at many trendy restaurants has apparently sparked a hunger for nostalgia in America's home cooks. At least that is the impression one gets from the season's crop of cookbooks. Their titles and dust-jacket blurbs are cozy with words like down- home, traditional, family and old-time, as in "Give me that old-time culinary religion...
When I got to New Haven, I knew I had to sell one of my two tickets. I hung outside the Yale Bowl, huddled in my army jacket, looking like a convict. At everyone who passed by I intoned, "Psst. Need a ticket...
...like Alex, which she considers a breakthrough: "The first woman I've played who is out of control, who emotionally runs the gamut -- the first real, full-blooded role I've had." She adds that Attraction has also liberated her personal style. "Now I can wear that black leather jacket from the film, or those slinky, low-cut things," she laughs, "and feel really good about myself...
Reviews of The Crimes of Patriots, as well as the book's own jacket, make much of its revelations about the Iran-Contra affair. But they shouldn't. As is the case with Bob Woodward's Veil, portions of this book that deal with the arms for hostages swap are somewhat afterthoughtish. After appearing on the jacket, the name Richard Secord does not come up again until page 273; Ollie North comes up at about the same point but figures even less prominently in Kwitny's narrative...
...Bergman must take this raw material, put it into some order and then "frame it to represent the world of the child." The set consists of red tubular scaffolding with connecting platforms. Around this are displayed the emblems of childhood: a red plastic baseball bat, a father's jacket, a mother's frying pan, a sister's dress and, the play's most symbolic prop, the leather strap. For three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated...