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Yeah, right. Safire was the one who compared Nixon to a layer cake: Cut it from the top and you get all the different layers plus icing and Happy Birthday America, but go in from the side on a layer like Watergate and all you get is crumbs...
...expectations created by its title. But the remainder of the film never fulfills its promise. This sequence is, for both Wilder and the audience, merely a dream. As Wilder snaps out of his fantasy and back to the reality of his job as a baker, he fouls up the cake decorator, spewing streams of sticky icing in an imbecillic lapstick scene a la Laurel and Hardy. This, instead of the first scene, in an indicator of the usual level of entertainment in Wilder's latest creation...
...Hyde's bill, assuming that the Supreme Court would find it unconstitutional. But the court last June upheld state laws banning Medicaid abortions, despite an impassioned plea from Harry Blackmun, author of the 1973 abortion decision, that the latest ruling was "almost reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.' " His point: the court in effect was making medically safe abortions legally available only to women who can pay for them...
...drink flown in for the postcoronation feast included cases of Chateau-Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in. The dessert: a green, seven-tier cake complete with half a dozen doves that flew out to hover over the imperial plate...
...family and friends. But, he maintains, "it's pure recreation. It's a great outlet for my energy and, besides, we're very gregarious." One recent feast for ten chez Flaherty featured roast suckling pig, stuffed goose, boiled lobsters, marinated mushrooms and Karen Flaherty's raspberry bombe and walnut cake...