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...deserted her for another woman, who, according to Sally, "is as neurotic as I used to be." Coming from a pill-popping vodka swigger, this brings down the house. Dennis' ability to widen her eyes in engrossed shell shock, like a child who has dropped an ice cream cone, and to filter her voice through obdurate adenoids makes her an enduringly dotty delight...
...argue why earthworms are scarce and if a doe hare drops her kits all in one den. Roarty's bizarre attempts to unveil his blackmailer also reveal the tragicomedy of the Other Ireland. Locals fight the design of a new church-"a cube surmounted by a cone"-and investigate a blackguard who steals the priest's maid's knickers from the wash line. Without the precisely plotted mystery, this might merely be another scenic tour of Eire. But Bogmail is something more: "A novel with murder." McGinley has concocted a different brew in this fine first thriller...
...words of one fascinated observer, "intentionally or unintentionally created a kind of hole-in-the-wall chic." It sure has; suburbanites frequently drive an hour each way to stand in a 20-min. line in front of Bob's and pay 950 for a cone and $3.75 for a quart of apple-peanut butter, banana mango or mocha almond. People buy Bob's Kahlua for $17 per gal., and some have spent $40 to airfreight it across the country. Owner Bob Weiss, 35, a lawyer who tired of the profession when he followed his lawyer-wife to Washington...
...making ice cream. Thomas Jefferson loved it. An American woman named Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranked, rock salt-and-ice freezer in 1846, although she neglected to patent the machine. Robert M. Green, a Philadelphia visionary, gave the world the ice-cream soda in 1874. The ice-cream cone was the hit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis. Christian Nelson, an Iowa candy-store proprietor, thought up chocolate-covered ice cream in 1919 but got nowhere until Russell Stover, an ice-cream company superintendent, searched the firmament and invented the name Eskimo...
Then, on a trip to California a few years back, I discovered Swensen's. I still remember the first cone, a scoop of coconut and a scoop of Swiss chocolate with almonds and oranges. Later, Swensen's came to New York, but there are thrills you can't recapture...