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The Orlando Sentinel The Lively Arte the lineup tor music and theater, E-2 Friday, March 25,1983 i 1 Fir pfT-aud ivo n- -T W-i I 111 II II i. ltv Shopper has to get around for a good meal at home MflWCIM MAM II MMCMO DC II MOMVLINI By Rob Morse T0NK1HT TK TAG bsim OFAMLVnuQ ther should the Central Floridlan. Some of our supermarkets are better than others one or two are excellent, in fact but none is equal to the sum of certain meat markets, fish markets, bak- Hand to mouth Television ents. The computer hackers' expression "garbage in, garbage out" applies to the salad bowl or the saute pan as well as it does to software. Without good, fresh ingredients, an excellent meal is nigh impossible to produce.

The upshot is that the reviewer, or any gastronomlcally aware Central Floridlan, shops like a European. The European does not shop for food in one large, fluorescent-illuminated, plastic-wrap-ridden location. The European does not desire tomatoes with the taste and consistency of lacrosse balls. Nei that I visit on typical Saturday morning when guests are coming to dinner that evening. It is by no means a complete list of all of the resources hereabouts.

My day begins with a cup of coffee and the construction of a tentative menu. It is good to have an idea of what you want to serve, but to keep the menu rough enough to allow for exceptional finds. The coffee that accompanies the menu planning, incidentally, is brewed from a mixture of beans purchased in two disparate places: water-processed decaffein ated French Roast ($7.50 per pound and much safer than other chemical-processed decaffeinated coffees) from the Coffee Boutique at the Factory Outlet Mall in Orlando, and Bokar Bean Coffee ($2.69 per pound) from Winn-Dixie. The result is a good, reasonably priced half-caffeinated coffee for the coffee addict who does not wish to walk on the celling or go broke. Water-processed decaffeinated coffee beans are also available at Bamie's Coffee Tea which has shops at Altamonte Mall and Please see MEAL, E-12 SENTINEL RESTAURANT CRITIC Yes, a restaurant reviewer dines at home occasionally.

The motives may include wanting a good, relaxing meal for a change, or having to entertain guests. The latter is a tough one. Guests expect something special from this character who is always spouting off about culinary excellence. So what's a reviewer to do? The first, thing a reviewer does is to find some first-class ingredi HOWARD ROSENBERG Do ads reflect I accepted lifestyles? eries, specialty stores, produce stands and farmers' markets. If you want to eat really well around here, you have to spend a good part of a day driving and chatting with shopkeepers.

The following are some places Ballet's touring show opening at Valencia By Richard Defendorf OF THE SENTINEL 8TAFP Orlando's Southern Ballet Theatre, designated by the Florida Fine Arts Council as the official dance touring company of Florida, will celebrate its new status this weekend at Valencia Community College, Orlando, by premlering its upcoming tour program. With a company of 14 professional dancers and 12 technicians and administrators, the ballet will tour from August 1983 through April 1984, reaching audiences all over the state. This weekend's performances will in-' elude the comedy ballet Misalliance by choreographer Rodney Griffen, who has worked with Alvin Alley and the Milwaukee Ballet, and the modern dance, Sextuor, by former New York City Ballet soloist Christopher Fleming. The classical favorite Romantique also will be performed. The dances were carefully selected for broad appeal, but will also hold the interest of balletomanes, says Kip Watson, Southern Ballet general manager.

The premiere performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Valencia Community College Performing Arts Center, East Cam-pus, 701 N. Econlockhatchee Trail, Orlando. Tickets are $7.50 and can be purchased at the Southern Ballet Theatre studio, 976 Orange Winter Park, or at the performing arts center box office on the night of the performance.

Watson says that the state tour program benefits the ballet in two ways: First, it provides the company with more performing opportunities in Florida by subsidizing performances. Any place that hires the ballet during the 1983-84 tour season will receive one-third off the cost. Second, the tour status will enhance the quality of the ballet's dance troupe. In the past, small companies such as Southern Ballet have lost their best dancers to the big-city theaters of Boston, New York or Washington. The prestige associated with performing in a state-sanctioned tour, Watson says, will make it easier for the ballet to hold on to its performers.

GEORGE REMAINESENTINEL Katrina Dvorsky, Tom Pratt (at left) Laura Moore joins in on rehearsal. Bedside manners how to treat a friend who's sick HOLLYWOOD Which came first, Madison Avenue or the egg? The egg, undoubtedly. Advertisers are seldom explorers who chart the uncharted. TV commercials are usually the products of extensive research and testing whose purpose, in part, is to ensure that no viewer is offended by the sales pitches. In other words, we see it in a commercial, it's okay, even in Peoria.

That is why a current trend in commercials is worth following. Actually, it's less a trend than a drift, and a minidrift, at that. Still, we are seeing more commercials whose sales messages depict behavior that a large segment of the nation may find distasteful. For example, there were those Lite Beer spots featuring New York Yankees owner George Stetnbrenner and his off-again, on-again manager, Billy Martin, poking fun at their on-again, off-again feuds. However, the reality in which Martin seemed to uncontrollably erupt in public was more pathetic than funny.

Now come Bic blades, with a commercial campaign starring tennis player. John McEnroe as himself, ranting and out of control on the court. Suddenly the scowl dissolves into a smile, and Mac pitches Bic. What are we to make of a commercial that seems to legitimize McEnroe's dark side as it advertises close shaves, or one that exploits a man's emotional problems to sell beer? Is Madison Avenue Informing us that America is now so tolerant of obnoxious tantrums that such spasms can be used to pitch products? The recent shift in commercial attitudes also involves sex. Couples routinely hop in and out of bed in daytime and prime-time soap operas.

However, though you could always wink about sex in commercials and show a 16-year-old Brooke Shields wiggling in her Calvins or women driving men mad with their fragrances, it could never be implied on the screen that sex had actually occurred, especially between unmarried partners. But now the double standard that has separated commercials from the programs they surround is breaking down. Introducing TV's latest mini-drift: "The morning after" commercials. A Paco Rabanne cologne spot begins with a man in bed answering his phone. The woman's voice on the line says, "You snore when you sleep." We get the impression that this is an unmarried couple who have slept together and will do so again.

The latest entry is from Nox-zema. A woman enters a bathroom and speaks to a man who is shaving with She observes that he's quiet in the morning. He explains that it's just that he doesn't like talking when he's shaving. It's obvious that they are virtual strangers who happen to have spent the night together. "We refer to the commercial as 'The Esty Vice President Stephen Moynahan says.

Newlyweds? "That's right. They're supposed to be newly-weds," Moynahan says. Hadn't the agency heard from anyone who thought the couple were unmarried? "The only comments are that it is a well-produced, well-acted spot," he insisted. That's a little hard to swallow. It seems.

Instead, that the Paco Rabanne and Noxzema spots together may be the vanguard of new sexual revolution in TV commercials, a signal by cautious Madison Avenue that this lifestyle has already gained wide acceptance throughout the nation. Noel Holtton, Orlando Sentinel televition critic, will return his column on Monday. Howard Rosenberg it a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. TV listings, -70 By Olive Evans NEW YORK T1ME8 away." That offhand remark threw Helen into a turmoil and filled her hospital stay with anxiety. "I knew somewhere in my mind that there was a possibility that it might be malignant," she says.

"But I wasn't ready to deal with that on a conscious level yet. At that point I was just psyching myself up to get into the hospital." She is not alone in finding some friends insensitive about illness. "What we're dealing with here is the basic principle of approaching someone in a stressful situation, what is supportive and what's not," says Dr. Milton Viederman, a psychiatrist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "The woman who brought up the possibility of malignancy did not know what the other woman was thinking," Dr.

Viederman says, "but she sure knew what she herself was thinking: 'If I were in that situation, I'd be concerned about whether or not it was So she dealt with it as if that was her friend's preoccupation too. And in attempting to reassure her, she added to her anxiety." For Helen all went well, and there was no malignancy. The only incurable damage was to the friendship. "I just can't feel the same about her," she says of her friend. Illness can be a test of friendship, and it can evoke complex emotions in addition to the anxi ety that can make people say thoughtless things.

"The well person may avoid the sick person whom they are really concerned about," Viederman says. "And the sick person may see that as a hurt. Then there are people who act as if nothing was wrong, denying that the illness exists." When we do arrive at the bedside, how should we behave? What are the things to say or not to say? How can we give emotional support without our own emotions getting in the way? "You can pick up cues from the patient," Viederman says. "The most supportive thing is to tactfully take note of the other person's experience in such a way as to let the person know that you are aware of what they may be feeling." He suggests neutral remarks: "What's going on? Are you worried? Do you want to talk about it?" If the person expresses a fear of a malignancy, the response might be, "Well, it's not so crazy to think that it's only natural." The visitor's attitude toward the treatment process may be a ticklish area, according to Ellen Martin, director of patient relations at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center In New York. "There is so often a next-door neighbor who knows all about it," she says.

'I had that operation, and it didn't really they may say. Please see SICK, E-12 NEW YORK Helen was going into-the hospital the next morning to have an intestinal polyp removed. It was minor surgery and she was only a little apprehensive. It would just be an unpleasant couple of days that had ttt be gotten through. As she' was packing her nightgown, $he phone rang.

It was Sylvia, one of her best friends (the women asked that their real names not be used). The conversation turned to the coming event. "It's really nothing," Helen said. Sylvia replied, "And if it is malignant, they can take it out right The Candy Loving a centerfold can't show 'I Jeffrey Zaslow OF THE SENTINEL STAFF Most men look at a Playboy centerfold girl objectively. That is, she is an object.

Pose her in a library and men will say, "Get a load of those volumes." Lean her against a car and she is machinery: "Wow, man, I'd like to drive that." But bring her to a car show where one can smell her perfume, touch her hand, feel her smile, hear her laugh and these goddess-gawking, big-talking, page-crinkling centerfold analysts behave like the gentlemen of their mothers' dreams. If it wasnt for their Rebel caps and axle-grease hands, you'd swear they sip tea with the Queen. So courteous. So polite. Last weekend, the World of Wheels car show pulled into the Orange County Convention and Civic Center and Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate, Candy Loving, was along for the ride.

Saturday afternoon, she sat on a raised platform and looked heavenly. Playboy combed the country in 1978 human relations at Oklahoma. On weekends she signs posters. Men shuffle up to her, unrolling $2 posters. "What's your name?" she asks with little inflection.

The proximity of her beauty can fluster a man, reduce him to adolescence. The chore of the moment: remembering one's name. The names here were like the names elsewhere: George, Steve, Terry, Bill, Mike, Mike, Mike. She signed "Lots of Love, Candy Loving." Does she tire of lots of love? "Not at all. Every poster, I make a dollar." Some men didnt have the guts to meet her on the platform: They photographed from ground level.

Somehow, she always knew their intentions. She would smile an instant before the flash, then return to signing posters. It was a rare, courageous man who draped his arm around her. Most seemed sheepish and nervous, eager to be on their way. Maybe it was the one- Please see PLAYMATE, E-12 and found her studying public relations at the University of Oklahoma.

Like the other finalists in the Great Playmate Hunt, she was worth the chase. When she put in her contact lenses and took off her bikini, no one questioned her qualifications. But she had more: an affable manner, a determined intellect that would be impressive on tour, and a name Candis Loving that matched the package. As the playmate-to-end-all-playmates, she won $25,000. She is now a graduate student in Candy Loving the pride of Playboy' playmates.

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