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...ATLANTA!" screamed the two-inch headlines last Tuesday, and my hometown was momentarily paralyzed by a wave of disbelieving amazement and joy...
...constantly striving to free himself from the power of his creator, slowly goes insane. A large part of the appeal of this play is the perverse joy of watching the narrator self-destruct. And since "YER MAN" is part of Nash, in a sense we are watching Nash self-destruct...
...very top is a very modern version of the great old war-horse cookbooks like The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and Joy of Cooking. It is called The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins (Workman; $29.95). These are the people who founded New York City's swell little gourmet-food store the Silver Palate and then produced one of the pioneer nouvelle American cookbooks. At 849 pages, The New Basics describes and prescribes just about everything one does in the kitchen...
...comparison, the 1964 version of Joy of Cooking has one straightforward recipe for pot roast and one for mashed potatoes. But Joy is an amusing cultural icon, atwitter with the new availability of frozen food and the wonders of the blender. It is stern and didactic in tone, urging its female readers on to culinary excellence: "You will eat at the hour of your choice . . . And you will regain the priceless private joy of family living, dining and sharing...
...that feeling in the middle of winter, inside, protected from the biting cold and warmed by the lamp overhead and the writing of some great author. Then reading is not a chore, but a joy...