Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adorable right after dinner," says Jean). The adjacent living room?like every other room in the house, half the niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior of an enormous iron stove, symbolically lighting no fires in this particular house. High above it all, bolted to the eaves, is a functioning 28-bell carillon that, at the touch of a switch, tolls out something...
...Kerr has gotten more material out of her family than anyone since Clarence Day. Her most recent collection of casual pieces, The Snake Has All the Lines, has been on every bestseller list and in nearly every hospital room in the country. Its phenomenally successful predecessor, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, has sold nearly 275,000 hard-cover copies. All of which has made Jean Kerr even more famous than her children, the five sons who apparently play she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not with their teeth. She has achieved the life a great many women dream about...
...portrayed by Georgann Johnson, who is much slimmer than she (though Jean is easily the better actress). and her husband is impersonated by Henry Fonda, who is slightly more handsome than Walter Kerr (though Walter is easily the better critic). In the movie version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, of course, the Kerrs were played by Doris Day and David Niven, a fate that has befallen nobody else in Larchmont...
...NATIONAL PURPOSE: "When paleolithic man lived on lizards, he had two jobs: to provide security for his family and food for them to eat. Things haven't changed much. The basic objective of our foreign policy is to provide security and food with which to feed ourselves...
Mary, Mary. A thoroughly engaging comedy by Jean Kerr, author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, who offers an obvious marriage-divorce plot, but has decorated it with splendid...