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...emotions that cannot be fully expressed. She is lovely and touching. Hoffman's character is based on a vanished type, the journalistic dandy of the Richard Harding Davis variety. He's a man who travels with a dozen suitcases full of bespoke clothing, knows his way around menus and room clerks, has the air of a self-made man who is pleased with the job he did on himself. Also, of course, she is very tall and he is very short, a fact the movie cheerfully plays up to underscore the improbability of their attraction...
...like having been prescribed in her bestselling books The Total Woman and Total Joy, Marabel has moved on to the kitchen to assemble a total woman's cookbook for publication next spring. Her recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops and coconut cream pie. "It's so important," she insists, "to furnish men happy moments at mealtime." Her husband Charlie takes a judicious view of total cookery. "All things...
...Pancakes and Hamburger Hamlets have all been foiled by a Los Angeles campaign to enforce honesty in eateries: it is now against the law, for example, to describe a nondairy product as "cream," or lower-grade beef as "prime." Like truth inadvertising and truth in lending, truth in menus is catching on. Chicago issues its own menu guidlines: "'Baked ham' should not have been boiled." Councilwoman Carol Greitzer of NEw York City has introduced a bill of fair fare that would outlaw such representations as describing an ordinary spud as an Idaho potato and an ordinary crustacean...
...fully protected from Menuese-a peculiar subbranch of American Englihs, rich in mouth-watering adjectives, that is designed both to entice and to obfuscate. In the interests of consumerism, TIME herewith offers its own guide to some of the most common plats du jour found on U.S. restaurant menus-and what they really mean...
...committee briefly discussed yesterday use of Nestle's products, vegetarian menus, the distribution of nutritional information on entrees, alternate meal rates and lunch hours at the Houses, Danguole J. Spakevicius '81, a representative from Winthrop House, said yesterday...