Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercy of oblivion promptly descended on Dr. Cook's Garden, Keep It in the Family, and Song of the Grasshopper, three turkeys that trotted to their dooms. Appropriately enough, Garden was about mercy killing of a sort. Dr. Cook has kept God's bucolic little acre of Greenfield Center, Vt., weeded by systematically poisoning mentally retarded children and town skinflints who fight bills for new schools. Burl Ives as the doctor made a sly sweet monster, but he wasn't really scary. What was really scary about the Ira Levin melodrama was that someone produced...
...film's climax occurs when a member of the staff calls a meeting of the children to announce that a beloved cook has unexpectedly died. Some are stunned into silence, others burst out in self-destructive rage; two gins rend the air with mourning wails that continue into the night. The catharsis of tears signifies that the children, unable to separate reality and fantasy, now feel guilty for the death, as if they had willed it. In the film's most subtle and affecting sequence, Warrendale focuses on the grieving faces of children at the cook...
Fragrance at Sea. Snaith calls industrial designers "the 20th century's Renaissance men," and his own interests certainly fit that label. He is author, decorator, designer, consumer analyst, critic, raconteur, painter, gourmet cook and popular after-dinner speaker. His canvases have won respectful reviews in four Manhattan exhibits. His first book, a diatribe about trends in art and architecture called The Irresponsible Arts, drew mostly critical barbs, but Across the Western Ocean fared better. It consists mostly of the log of two trips in his 47-ft. yawl, Figaro III. In the book, Skipper Snaith, one of the world...
Occasional irregularities there surely were, just as the U.S. has its West Virginia presidential primaries and predictable voting patterns in Cook County, Ill. But among the Vietnamese, the overwhelming feeling about their own election last week was that it was as honest as they have ever known, more honest than anyone expected. That feeling promises much for the future of Viet Nam-and for the new mandate of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu...
...weeks after the O'Neill premiere in California, the first Broadway curtain will rise on Dr. Cook's Garden, an Ira Levin melodrama about medical ethics, with Burl Ives, Screen Actor Keir Dullea (David and Lisa) and George C. Scott as director. From Britain, David Merrick is bringing a sure conversation piece: Playwright Tom Stoppard's existentialist upending of Hamlet, titled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Another West End import is the adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel about a slightly bonkers Edinburgh schoolmarm, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The title role, perfected by Vanessa...