Word: missuses
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NIXON IN CHINA (Nonesuch). A waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and the missus: last year's best new opera is this year's best new opera recording...
...just a regular Joe, see, just a working stiff with a missus who likes her fiction cheap. She doesn't have her nose stuck in a thriller, she's not happy. So one day she sees an ad for a mystery weekend. You go to some dive and they fake a murder and you try to solve the case. A snap, she says to me, a downhill roll. She should live so long...
...plotting is in order here--bizarre reversals, wacky characters, things going bump in the night. After all, Myra (Dyan Cannon) may be a bit too touchy/feely for her husband's effete tastes, but has-been Sidney (Michael Caine) would never murder her--he needs an ego-booster, not the missus's millions. Or does...
Gurney uses the room as a kind of revolving door for life's large and little ironies. Through it troop generations of disparate families as well as a feudal array of maids much given to the response "Yes, Missus." In the first episode, a brother and sister who have inherited the house argue testily about which of them is to have the dining room. Subsequently, an architect advises a psychiatrist purchaser of the house to split the room up into his office and a reception area...
...most successful ways to mollify a ms. or missus is, of course, to take her out to dinner and leave the cookbooks at home. In Manhattan, the greatest repository of restaurants in the world, there is a special place whose very atmosphere is as heady as champagne. It is The Four Seasons, whose owners and chef have published a treasury of their most prized and coveted preparations. Rumanian-born Tom Margittai and his Hungarian partner, Paul Kovi, took over the restaurant in 1973, at a time when the décor far outdazzled the dishes...