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Another episode, played by professional actors, dramatizes matrimonial alienation. A scene shows a wife in the kitchen, husband in the living room, thinking their separate thoughts. She: "This must be the three millionth time I've washed this dish. John, tell me to break it. Ask me to sit next to you for a while." He: "Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with...
...hire a manager, pressagent or secretary. He entertains in restaurants. "Come, come, come," he urges after a performance, sweeping everybody in his dressing room along, and conducting the seating arrangements like a symphony. At an Indian establishment such as Manhattan's Kashmir, he orders a scorching native dish like shrimp vindalo; elsewhere he will eat ordinary American food as long as it is liberally doused with Tabasco sauce. His table talk ranges knowledgeably over such topics as Kafka, Canadian hockey, the Greek military junta, Malibu real estate, pingpong and yoga...
DISRAELI GEARS (ATCO Records). This new music group, Cream, serves up a fancy dish of hard rock topped off with choice, albeit bittersweet, lyrics. Drums whip up a froth of steady background rhythms, while the guitars and vocals tread a steady path through the blues of commentary on the human condition...
Louis Washkansky began the second week of his second life by eating steak and eggs, his favorite dish. He took his first hesitant steps, a few yards from his bed to an armchair on a sunny balcony, badgered his wife to bring the family for a visit, and nicknamed the daily blood sampler "Old Dracula." Every other day he got a dose of cobalt-60 radiation that his doctors had or dered in hopes of controlling the expected-indeed, inevitable-attempt by his system to reject the "foreign" heart muscle in his chest. Even so, he was doing so famously...
...nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide. 16) an awful English pudding. 17) literally a fish dish of the same grade as semolina pudding; more likely is an abomination of "filcher", meaning in this context a hippie so degraded that he has to steal, violating the hippie ethics. 18) to jump? 19) the Penguin textbook editions; here means people who haven't read farther. The word is actually...