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...Julia J. Brody, Chief Mid-Manhattan Library New York City...
Werner Erhard? Rand McNally? Julia Child? Merle Haggard? Sid Vicious...
...afraid of the big bad monkfish? Certainly not Julia Child, that indefatigable doyenne of the television kitchen, even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When...
...vacationing middle-aged businessman named Gus Howkins falls in love with Julia, a distressed young actress fleeing from her famous actor husband. There are more than emotional and thematic parallels between Giles and Dinah and Gus and Julia. Their stories literally leap-frog each other in alternating chapters throughout The Pardoner's Tale...
Kirsten Giroux's Julia is somewhat too petulant and childish in the first two acts, but when she disguises herself as a page to pursue Proteus, she makes more of her part and ends up being pleasantly engaging. The rest of the cast, with one exception, is conventional, adequate, and relatively nondescript...