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...Nifty! Eek! Gosh! Lookit! Oh boy! Those unique, familiar chirrups and chortles of gustatory delight are wafting through the kitchen once more as cameras record another salivant television series by Julia Child. The wood-notes wild, the vibrato delivery, the blue-eyed conspiratorial beam have changed little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia...
...through a nasogastric tube, Quinlan, who turned 29 last week, continues to exist in a vegetative state in a nursing home. "She can hear me when I talk to her, and she can hear music. But no connection takes place inside," says Quinlan's mother Julia, who usually visits her daily. Though her daughter's recovery is impossible, she says, "We decided that removing the feeding tube was simply something we did not want...
Some aspects of the Falklands' somnolent life have not changed. There is no television, though videocassette players are proliferating (the most popular movies: M*A*S*H and Julia). The telephones have crank handles and are operated by a sole switchboard. The brightly painted clapboard houses are heated with bricks of black peat stored in sheds near kitchen doors, and Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week...
Near the end of the play, Peter, a confused young novelist, expresses one of the central paradoxes of Cocktail Party." "But Mr. Henry had been saying, I think, that every minute is a fresh beginning, and Julia, that life is only keeping on; and somehow, the two ideas seem to fit together." The two halves of this perspective show in the contrast between the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and that of Celia Coplestone. The play both begins and ends with one of the Chamberlayne's cocktail parties; they represent the decision to struggle on with the drab existence...
...RECENT Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) presidential election provided an unusually clear example of the Radcliffe predicament. The two candidates ran on disparate platforms emphasizing the different roles RUS could possibly undertake. Former vice president Julia Rubin '84 wished to make the group a social and political focal point for all Radcliffe women, while winner Elizabeth Young '85 stressed the need to maintain RUS as a lobbying ground for feminist issues...