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Horrified Epicures. French doctors still prescribe it as a health food: it is low in fat-a prime consideration for liver-conscious Frenchmen-and high in protein and minerals. But yogurt has long since transcended the fad-food stigma. Though epicures gag at the thought, some Paris restaurants serve it at dessert time, right alongside the Brie, Chevre and Camembert...
...lyrics show signs of being dashed off, except for the last, very beautiful one, and the lyricist doesn't seem to be able to make a rhyme without using enjambement, a device which should always be used very sparingly. The score keeps the show flowing when the accumulation of gag-lines that have fallen flat start to clog...
...York's Mayor John Lindsay, Nebraska Governor Norbert Tiemann, Robert Merrill and Nelson Rockefeller. Rocky was Carson's guest recently and suggested that Johnny run against Bobby for the Senate in 1970. There was much good-natured kidding, and the next night Carson was still playing the gag. "I have no intention of running for public office," he said. "As I was telling my wife Joanne Bird...
...shake of the head, wondering where the devil this geek got all that garbage. He is often at his best when his material is worst-a handy knack for a man who has to come up with 60 laughs a minute. When a gag clunks to the floor, he'll say: "Never buy jokes from people on streets. Give 'em a quarter but never buy a joke from...
...Exercise Expert Debbie Drake stretched out on mats for a demonstration, he asked: "Would you like to leave a call?" Last month, five years later, he was still using the same line when Singer Roger Miller was doping off during a discussion. Similarly, Carson's L.B.J. inaugural gag "As I was telling my bellboy, Dean Burch," was transformed a month later, during a CBS upheaval, into: "The television business is tough, as I was saying just the other day to my waiter, Jim Aubrey...