Word: broils
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...Grill by Steven Raichlen, who has started a Barbecue Boot Camp after being besieged for grilling tips. High-end kitchen appliance companies like Jenn-Air and Viking have moved into the al fresco business, and a flurry of new releases have come from mass players like Coleman and Char-Broil. There are more devices on which to burn meat than ever before: grills big enough to cook 45 hamburgers, grills in the shape of pigs and grills with solid-gold bezel knobs...
...considerably revised - ad-libbed, if you like - from Cole Porter's text. Bing's asides are apt and inspired: when Armstrong sings "Frenchmens all/ Prefer what they call/ Lay jazz hot," Bing apostrophizes a très-français "formidable!" Satch, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle and the rest broil their venerable chops in a sweetly swingin' 12-bar blues. And Bing leads them, a simpatico impresario, with a suave verve. Beneath the famous Crosby savoir-faire, we for once sense the adolescent thrill he must have felt back in the mid-'20s, when he first heard Armstrong create...
...past two years, its availability has almost doubled, to more than 52 million cable homes. Had it stayed narrowly authentic, it might have been doomed. We longtime viewers may grumble like purist fans of a cult band that has sold out. But apparently it's better to broil out with celebrity chefs than fade away...
...better job judging what quantity of cod, corn or Cracklin' Oat Bran we take. When you can always go back for seconds, why take a gladiatorial proportion and realize that you are not Maximus as you throw your silverware down the shoot and watch a plate of cold London broil on its way to a Cambridge garbage truck...