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...variant entrail-reading suggests that when people break faith with their diets, as they always do sooner or later, they want to do it with a strumpet certifiably and wickedly luxurious. Actually, according to a recent Consumer Reports calculation, a half-cup serving of superpremium vanilla ice cream contains only 267 calories, compared with 363 for a 5-oz. piece of homemade apple pie. A 154-lb. person, nutritionists say, can burn off half a dish in 21.2 min. of moderate skiing, 87.6 min. of golfing or painting furniture, or 188.6 min. of lying down and daydreaming. The difficulty...
...ancient Greek slave Aesop. The eagle had pledged to be friends with the fox. But one day, while it was away hunting, the eagle abducted the fox's cubs to feed to her hungry eaglets. The fox was unable to take revenge until a burning entrail, which the eagle had brought home from a sacrificial altar, set her nest on fire. As the eaglets fell to the ground, the fox ate them...
Since then, she has withdrawn to her home in Lausanne, submerged herself in her two favorite occupations, eating and working. A gourmet with exotic tastes, Capucine has been known to consume anything that has flavor. She has eaten chicken-entrail stew in Cambodia, honey bats in Mauritius, and sheep eyes in North Africa. Despite her exotic intake, she remains a model of gauntness. "I only gain weight when I am terribly depressed," she maintains. Apparently, there is nothing depressing Capucine at present, except the gnawing feeling that the pussycat may be keeping so cool that as a comedienne...
...into the field of character acting." That was three years ago, and the first character was a homosexual barrister in Victim, which won Bogarde all sorts of praise. Then he groped floppishly through / Could go On Singing and The Mind Benders. Shaken, he signed to do another entrail opera, called Doctor in Distress (still unreleased in the U.S.). But he need not have panicked. He has since appeared in The Servant (TIME, March 20), and critics have given him the serious acceptance he was looking for. More over, just as The Servant opened in the U.S., he was scoring another...
...bloodcurdling years. It is the Grand Guignol. Although its name had percolated down to the bedrock of dramatic criticism in half a dozen languages, most people thought the theater itself had vanished long since. Now they are right. The last clotted eyeball has plopped onto the stage. The last entrail has been pulled like an earthworm from a conscious victim. The Grand Guignol is closed forever...