Word: gingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revson knew the Bergerac name; Michel's older brother Jacques, a onetime movie actor and briefly the husband of Ginger Rogers, worked for Revlon (he heads its French operations). Michel and Revson had a meeting at the Palm
...Thake the blood of him and the grease of himself and oatmeal and salt and peper and ginger, and mix these well together, and then put this in the gut of the porpoise and let it seethe easily, and not hard, a good while. Then take him up and broil him a little, and then serve forth...
...golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter as "tree rat," provoking preprandial nausea among several F.F.s...
Actually, I'm told that rug by players are more like Billy Carter although their endeavors are not quite so lucrative. Rugby without beer is, well, it's like Ginger Rodgers without Fred Astaire, or like Widener without the stacks...
...APPROACH seemed more consciously campy, and the actors really forced it (especially Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, better known as the Howells). There was one good line--Ginger said the tidal wave sounded like a "permanent wave"--but I don't remember the old show having a lot of puns, either. The original was so infantile that at times it seemed to belong to a different universe, like an Ionesco play; on reflection one could almost call some of it "inspired." But Rescue was so forced that it just got boring, which is what the old show never...