Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightclub scene starring Norma (Lesley Ann Warren). King's old girlfriend a Chicago chorus girl with a Brooklyn accent. Singing a paean to the Windy City. Norma struts her stuff and the camera zooms in close enough to count hairs. Slapstick routines, the inevitable waiter with a large cream pie, also form a backdrop for the main action. A few yuks fall flat but most of the jokes sustain a low chuckle coming from the audience...
...most famous convert to the virtues of saltlessness is Craig Claiborne, the New York Times food editor. Before his doctor ordered a low-sodium diet, Claiborne admits, he was the kind of fellow who ate the rock salt along with the homemade ice cream, and drank straight sauerkraut juice on ice. Now, with lowered blood pressure and a bestseller, Craig Claiborne's Gourmet Diet Book, the contented cook offers some notes from a salt-free kitchen...
...work in the morning--he is a computer company executive--without his boxer shorts for the sake of reaching nakedness in record time for an afternoon frolic. On another occasion Sears ruminates on the temptress Renee's remark "that male discharges were, in her experience the most restorative face cream." Shortly afterward, Sears finds himself lilted--out on his ear without explanation. Distraught, he winds up in the basement of the apartment and has a very unexpected homosexual encounter with the building's elevator man. The world, it seems, is many for Lemuel...
...cream and pretzel cart. This vendor gave out a free pretzel with every 75-cent egg cream he sold. At the deli around the corner, you could get an egg cream for 40 cents and a pretzel for a quarter...
...soft ice cream cart. Also known as the milkshake cart, soft ice cream being a tricky thing to keep in your cone in 90-degree weather. I stopped in front of the cart every day to watch a street-mime who had staked out this part of the avenue. His schtick, which attracted a large crowd every day, was to follow unsuspecting pedestrians about a step behind them, imitating the way they walked Every so often, he would run ahead of one of his subjects and dive onto the sidewalk to look up her skirt. One day, an elderly woman...