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...Manhattan's Stockholm Restaurant (unlimited smorgasbord for $6.95) still shudders when he remembers the tall, beautifully groomed woman who ravaged his 85-dish buffet. With exquisite technique but total nondiscrimination, she forked slabs of roast beef atop heaps of shrimp, added globs of Swedish meatballs and salted herring, then ladled a quart or so of Russian dressing over the mess. "It looked like an exploding volcano," says White, "and she repeated three or four times." On her next visit, some customers, sickened by the sight of the orgy, began to complain, and White politely told the woman...
...noon, many people gathered at the Grand Hotel, a pink elephant of a building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full...
...TIMKO has directed a turn-of-the-century French farce and written a modern red herring, and the Adams House Drama Society has seen fit to present the two together and call the result an evening of surreal theatre. Timko's red herring. "The Best Picture," ascribed to a Russian named Kopchyonaya Sel'dy, or Bloated Smelt, comes close to being theatre of the absurd, surreal theatre or whatever. But it really only diverts attention from the major part of the night's production. Georges Feydeau's farce, "Going...
...Nazi citizens in Siegfried Lenz's fine novel. The German Lesson, are not fear-crazed automatons. They are men and women who eat herring, talk gossip, wash dishes and dig ditches. In decent times they would be called decent people. Their tragedy is their loss of contact with life. They live according to ideals, according to banal principles of duty, work, honor. When the world turns ugly and nobility of duty becomes complicity in murder, they never notice...
...theory that watching TV violence drains off the viewer's own savage impulses, Political Scientist Ithiel de Sola Pool maintains that "if there is any kind of cathartic effect, it is swamped by the incitement effect." A few experts consider the TV-violence controversy something of a red herring. "Even if we did away with all the violence on TV we would have solved nothing," says Psychoanalyst Ner Littner. "There is no such thing as a single simple cause or a single simple solution. Searching for scapegoats allows us to avoid facing the problem of why we are violent...