Word: faddists
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...being enjoyed by the Harvard-Radcliffe sect should be placed in its more proper perspective. Bogey has been a byword at Bryn Mawr for years. Bogart Week on the Late Show has always drawn capacity crowds in the TV rooms here, and yet our appreciation is not confined to faddist imitations...
Before the divorce becomes final, husband and wife must meet once more to sort out a tangled income tax report, and of course a Joint 1040 leads smack into the subject of sex. Though already affianced to a socialite food faddist (Diane McBain), hubby chafes when an aging movie actor (Michael Rennie) begins to date his former mate. Everywhere that Mary goes, the ham is close behind. Nelson finally explodes-being the kind of guy, as Lawyer Hiram Sherman quips, "who thinks when he brings a book back to the library, it'll never go out again...
Along the way to the happy ending, several scenes are stolen by a disarming cinemoppet named Claire Wilcox. Claire, 8, plays a food faddist who hates to mix up her victuals. To make a snack, she lines up four plates on the table, puts bread on one, lettuce on another, tuna on a third, mayonnaise on the fourth. Then she starts nibbling from each plate in sequence. "It's a sandwich," she explains, "only the food isn't touching...
...those who will listen, doctors strongly recommend gradualism as the best lotion of all: about 20 minutes the first day out, 40 minutes the second day, and 20 minutes longer each subsequent day. The truly cautious sun faddist should have started his daily doses more than a month ago, when the ultraviolet rays were not quite so searing...
...Perelman's humor seems broader than in the past. He indulges frequently in the kind of wisecrack that makes the reader laugh out loud, instead of trying to evoke only nods and smiles. "And look at me today. How old a man would you say I was?" a health faddist asks Perelman...