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Where troubles melt like lemon drops...
...symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have too little. And this spring, escapes with or without clothes to lands where "troubles melt like lemon drops" are taking on the trappings of a full-time occupation...
...Suffolk home. "I knew the second I saw her." In fact, Mrs. Frost was so convinced that New York Cover Girl Karen Graham was going to be her daughter-in-law that she gave her some of Son David Frost's favorite recipes. "He likes my lemon meringue pie very strong, tart and lemony," advised Mum. As it turned out, Frost, 34, never got a chance to try Karen's culinary skills. Just two days before they were to be married by Evangelist Billy Graham in a Manhattan ceremony, Karen slipped away to Chicago and married Las Vegas...
Moral Absolutes. Jumpers begins at a surreal party. A girl swings back and forth over the stage as she performs a denture-defying striptease. Some lemon-clad gymnasts, called Jumpers, do flips and build pyramids. A shot flings one Jumper out of his pyramid. It seems to be a gag until he bleeds. Next day the cadaver turns up in the bedroom of ex-Singer Dotty Moore, at whose party he was mysteriously murdered. A good deal of esprit de corpse ensues until the poor chap is lugged away by his fellow Jumpers in a huge plastic bag. The deceased...
...careful, buying a stereo can be a lot like finding a mate: you can spend much time shopping around, take what looks best, and then, once home, discover you're stuck with a lemon...