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...YORKER, he is a meatball amidst the linguinous prose of Pauline Kael, et al, and in book form his essays stand up well. They are not meant to be read all together at one sitting, but to be savored, like stuffed peppers in chili sauce. If one dare bother to complain, Allen may not be clever enough. His stories are a form of verbal slapstick; he is desperately self-conscious when he puns...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Kugelmass | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...used to Caan as a macho character, but here he plays a writer "not gorgeous, but sweet-looking, with an intelligent face" (how he's described to Jennie) and he just can't pull it off. He doesn't know how to ask his wife to get him a chili dog with that sparkle of intimacy...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: One Chapter Was Plenty | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

Wendy's serves only four "concepts" (chili, hamburgers, french fries and frostys), and is about to add a fifth (salad), coast-to-coast-to-Japan, where Wenco Inc. recently picked up the franchise rights...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Largest Wendy's Opens in Hub | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...small menu makes for a tidy kitchen. One locker holds ground beef, another buns. And one chef, smiling, toothless Lester, is in charge of chili. "They only allow us to make it one way," Lester said as he stirred his simmering pots...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Largest Wendy's Opens in Hub | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...Chili Open is held on Nesmith Lake when it is frozen over a foot solid. The participants are given colored golf balls, holes are gouged out of the ice, and evergreen trees are placed along the slick fairways...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

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