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...hear what you eat." The White House dutifully mails back recipes for some of the Nixon family's favorite low-budget dishes. Few involve any kitchen wizardry that is likely to tax Presidential Chef Henry Haller's Swiss culinary education. Daughter Tricia Nixon Cox is fond of a fowl dish that is glopped up with two cans of cream of chicken soup, and the First Family's "Continental salad" is dominated by canned beets, canned grapefruit juice and a package of JellO. Other main courses recently served to the nation's highest-paid...
...Long Goodbye if you have fond and entrenched memories of the Raymond Chandler crime novel. Director Robert Altman has thrown out three-quarters of Chandler's plot, as well as detective Philip Marlowe's hard-boiled mystique--his pithy talk and polish, and his Sir Galahad morality. Altman's film is basically a wallow in the atmosphere of Los Angeles today. Altman's virtues are a good eye and some talent with actors, as well as a healthy distaste for the Hollywood culture which surrounds him. But his flaws are fatal: he doesn't know what makes a plot hold...
...lost very few members because of my attitude on Vietnam," Thompson said. "My people will disagree vehemently with what I have to say, but they are fond of their rector...
...looking, as ever, like your high-school dietician, must tell Caesar, her husband, that she has wrecked his beloved car. From there the film builds rapidly to an unlikely skirmish in a movie theater, a board meeting presided over by a chairman concerned only with his lunch, and a fond parody of a silent film called The Sewing Machine Girl. Finally there is a cli max of unsparing hilarity: a send-up of From Here to Eternity entitled From Here to Obscurity, starring Caesar as Montgomery Bugle; and a devastating reworking of a TV show called This Is Your Story...
...years old, Lisa can hardly qualify as a hard-nosed union organizer. But in five years she's achieved stitches, broken bones, fond farewell letters from schools and numerous employers and five years of organizing wisdom...