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Fitting together these three comedies, separated in style and centuries, was a clever idea. They are not linked by Gallic flavor (that's how they say garlic in this state: tasty, if a little foul), but by the lively acting of David H. Mills, who appears in each...
...best buy this side of Montauk Point. The meat is firm and red; comes in a full-sized pat ("When you take a thin piece of meat at high temperatures, you lose all the juice," Schwartz explains); and in a variety of new-fashioned forms, including a Gourmet Garlic Burger, at 50 cents ("The students at Harvard sort of helped create the demand for that," says Schwartz laconically). And, then, each burger-be it a Harvard Double Burger, at 80 cents, or a Bacon Cheese Burger, at 65 cents--comes with fresh cole slaw in addition to the inevitable pickle...
...grumbled one housewife. "They aren't civilized like us, are they? They kill their chickens by cutting off their 'eads and shaking them up and down in a sack. The children don't want to see that." Another housewife complained of cooking odors, "All that garlic or whatever it is," so unlike smells the English feel at home with, like boiled cabbage. Said a third: "They spit...
...town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...
...pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred, but what it really needs is a garlic...