Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Does that sound like the Stephen King of the supermarket rack? The man behind Maximum Overdrive, behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
...Cookbook (Abrams; $14.95). This may be the gift cookbook of the year -- 28 pages opening out in a gatefold reproduction of the glowing Davis mural. Under the panels for each season are a few of Rosenzweig's most popular dishes for that time of year. Among her best: corn cakes with creme fraiche and caviars, chimney-smoked lobster, roast quail with savoy cabbage and kasha, wild mushroom tarts and such knockout desserts as macadamia nut tarts, lemon curd mousse and chocolate bread pudding. It would be a pity to cook by this book, thereby soiling pages with dabs of butter...
...could have used a Kansan like Mary Elizabeth Lease, a Populist of a century ago who galvanized the nation by exhorting angry farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." The slogan was ready-made this year for Iowa and Illinois, surfeited with corn by farmers who "farm the Government." No takers...
Option C: Send in an undercover team to distribute free brownies, chocolate bars, candy corn, and other foodstuffs to the guilty parties in order to promote tooth decay and gum disease...
...smell of corn carried...