Word: mummer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JULIA CHILD is a fabulous American cultural phenomenon in the tradition of Tiny Tim, Gypsy Rose Lee, and the Philadelphia Mummer's Band. Even a single episode of "The French Chef," her TV instruction show (Wednesdays, 8 p. m., WGBH), leaves one with the overpowering image of a very eccentric, very competent, and very unselfconscious lady. She wipes up the debris scattered on her carving board after ten minutes of mushroom fluting, and a moment later the same towel is declared "impeccably clean," and suitable for use as a lemon strainer. She casually plops a dropped chicken back into...