On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New
York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the
New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.
Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he
attempted to answer a question Read More
There is a passage in one of Henry James’ essays on painting in which the writer, sounding his characteristic note of irony, poses the following question: “Was Rubens lawfully married to Nature, or did he merely keep up the most unregulated of flirtations?” I thought of this observation recently when I went to see the Read More
New York Times restaurant critic William (Biff) Grimes has an opinion about praise. “Praise, when it’s doled out indiscriminately, is not praise at all,” Mr. Grimes told The Observer . “It’s just mood music.”
Judging from the blackened mood of the city’s culinary elite, Mr. Grimes is in no danger of being mistaken for the Read More
