Word: butter
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...only exception is Finnegan's convincing and zany portrayal of the gay, foppish Algernon, who devours cucumber sandwiches, bread and butter and muffins with dainty relish while seriously maintaining, "When I am in great trouble I refuse everything but food and drink." His candid approach makes the most of other similarly ridiculous lines...
...says that his father will be his role model. "For many years he was not only my father, but my mother too. Every night he came home, put his feet under the table and had dinner with me. He was a good man, hard as nails and soft as butter, depending on the circumstances...
Contrary to such statements, the aim of the Peace Corps was never to spread the American Dream like so much butter over needy countries. Its purpose is less egocentric--to provide a better understanding, at the grass-roots level, between nations. The you-scratch-my-back policy which has developed instead makes the Peace Corps little more than a smaller edition of the Agency for International Development, whose avowed purpose is to provide economic development--such as dams and highways for nations in need. In fact, the Peace Corps this year began providing manpower for some of AID's smaller...
...events with misery and wit. At times her comedy seems borrowed; the paradoxes are straight out of Peter De Vries: "All summer long I was snapping at him because he was never there." And the ethnic comedy ("The Jewish prince doesn't mean 'Where's the butter?' He means 'Get me the butter'") might have come from a property settlement with her first husband. But when Ephron is herself, she can be the most painfully funny two-time loser in America. For months, people will be debating whether Rachel's analyst Vera Maxwell...
...family, he announces the members of the household like coming attractions he would rather not see. Mother (Elizabeth Franz) is an obsessive homemaker with the bawl of a staff sergeant. She inhales imminent doom with every breath. When Eugene asks why he cannot buy a half-pound of butter in the morning instead of a quarter-pound each in the a.m. and p.m., his mother retorts with fatalistic logic: "Suppose the house burned down this afternoon...