Word: saucier
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Most Baltimoreans, who regard their Casbah as a civic asset, were relieved that it would not disappear entirely. "A well-planned city should cater to all sorts of impulses," City Planner David A. Wallace once noted. "Though the Block's appeal is to the saucier impulses, it adds a very needed liveliness which many cities lack. Baltimore should be grateful...
...able to budge General de Gaulle, but Britons are having no trouble bowling over Broadway. In a distressingly dreary season, one of the few dramas of distinction is the British holdover A Man for All Seasons. Nothing on the boards is as stylish as The School for Scandal, or saucier than Beyond the Fringe and its off-Broadway sibling. The Establishment. Non-British plays like Tchin-Tchin and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore are visibly sparked by the highvoltage acting of England's Margaret Leighton and Hermione Baddeley. Even cornball tastes are catered to satisfactorily...
Ecstasy in Minutes. His reforms were radical. In the kitchen chaos of the old regime, for example, one cook took 15 minutes to prepare Eggs Meyerbeer. Under Escoffier's system of specialists, an entre-mettier baked the eggs in butter, a ròtisseur grilled the kidney, a saucier dished up the truffle sauce, and a gourmet was made ecstatic in only a few minutes. Traditionally, a luncheon for 40 might consist of 40 courses, and a dinner might last 18 hours, but Escoffier forged a new concept, replacing Gargantuan plenitude and baroque splendor with classic simplicity. His menus...