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Indian pudding, fish chowder and corned beef hash. Has Julia Child flipped her toque? No, America's most visible French chef has simply decided that it is time for a new cuisine art. On Julia Child & Company, a new television series that PBS will inaugurate in early October, she will whip up eclectic menus liberally seasoned with dishes from the U.S. Each show in the series is built around a distinctive gastronomic occasion, such as dinner for the boss or a pre-football-game lunch. "We hope to interest people in good cooking," says Child. "We want them...
...Julia Markus...
Philip Roth proved that New Jersey, summer camp and a claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along...
...Carol Oles and Peter Theroux. A first prize of $50 was awarded to Jacquelyn M. Crews for her poem "Rebecca," which is printed below. A second prize of $20 each went to Marcia Hulley for her entire collection and to Michael Wasserman for his poem, "To An Autistic Boy." Julia L. Fein and Steven Albert received honorable mentions. The Summer School Photography Competition was cancelled due to insufficient entries...
...Jerry (Treat Williams) open an elocution school in Hollywood to prep silent stars for the talkies. Jerry riffles through people like a deck of cards, May has the patience of Florence Nightingale, and George is purer than the infancy of truth and madder than his true love (Julia Duffy). Through simple unpollutable honesty, George becomes chief of staff to a manic-depressive studio mogul, Herman Glogauer. George S. Irving plays this role as if he were a Yiddish Mussolini...