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...Well, here are these potatoes in a box, see. 'Home fries.' they're called. A convenience food. No peeling. No cutting. O.K., you read the directions. You put 'em in the pan and you cover 'em with water. Get it? You're boiling 'em. Then you brown 'em and serve 'em. Right...
...know what they cost you? Sixty cents a pound. That's what it figures out to. Convenience foods, eh? Remember you still had to boil 'em. You've paid somebody 55? a pound for peeling your potatoes for you. For that kind of dough, I'll peel anybody's potatoes...
...chiefly concentrated in the Napa Valley. "The reason people think Napa Valley wine is better," snorts he, "is simply because it costs more. The wine snobs like it because it costs more. The so-called fine wineries' audience is composed of wine snobs. Well, let 'em have each other...
...Brattle's offering this week is a good old-fashioned shoot 'em up, Russian style. And Quiet Flows the Don has all the cowboy accoutrements: fistfights, whippings, sex (diluted), cossack cavalry charges, and even an attempted suicide with a three-foot scythe blade. With these it combines the usual Soviet trappings: oppressed peasants, oppressive nobles, and oppressingly nationalistic shots of women out in the fields raking hay. But like the suicide attempt, which ends up cutting a tendon instead of the jugular vein, the movie is rather anti-climactic, despite the imitation-Hollywood splendor. No one is surprised when...
Participating on the panel about segregation Wednesday will be Em Debrah, Counselor of the U.S. Embassy of Ghana; Harold Isaacs, research associate at MIT; Willard R. Johnson, member of the U. S National Commission; and Edward V. Roberts, an assistant director of the United States Information Agency in Africa...