Word: maraschinos
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peanuts and a maraschino...
...into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air?some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships, discarded like pop-top beer cans to make room for later-arriving choppers...
LaZabnik can't quite keep up the pace. It's a little bit predictable to have God call Satan a "little devil" and he seems to think that just repeating words like "rhubarb" and "maraschino cherry" and "kumquat" will get laughs as surely as the name "Brooklyn" will once supposed...
...supreme ironist. For him to have the power of the presidency reduced, at last, by a liberal drive to overturn the Administration of a hated Republican President merely shows what life's possibilities are. Having Nixon replaced by Ford may turn out to be the maraschino cherry on the sundae in terms of irony. Ford may become far more conservative and far more popular than Nixon...
Onto the screen flashes a shiny red dot, which turns out to be a maraschino cherry, which turns out to sit atop a chocolate sundae, which turns out to be the focal point for a swirling phantasmagoria of color. All of which, it also turns out, is a 60-second videotape commercial for a venerable Manhattan-based restaurant chain. "The chocolate sundae," proclaims a credit line that rolls diagonally across the TV tube, was "photographed for Schrafft's by Andy Warhol...