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...also liked to dine off heron, coot en cocotte, boar and sautéed squirrel ("An exquisite taste"). At times a puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...
...chock-full of Innocence. A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...
...when he shaves his skull egg-bald in hopes of growing thicker hair. When not engaged in scalping himself, he bangs pans by day and bumblefoots around the local talent (Felicia Farr) by night, but hits stormy weather on both fronts. His chief cook (Walter Matthau), a sardonic old coot with a mania for cinnamon rolls, marries the girl. Then Cookie ships out for convoy duty, and Griffith finds himself heating up both the gal and the gallery...
This is the Voice of Audubon. There is a small loon, a redhead duck and an American coot on Jamaica Pond. Brown-capped chickadees and "white-winged crossbills may be seen in the Arnold Arboretum . . What birds do you have to report...
...studio audience. Howdy Doody is the sort of show that can be heard five miles on a clear day without benefit of transmitter. Currently, while its star Bob Smith is convalescing from a heart attack, Howdy features bewhiskered Gabby Hayes, who describes himself as "an ornery ol' coot" and adds little coherence to the muddled plot...