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...Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have mustard or catchup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: The First Time He Made Anyone Sad | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

CACTUS FLOWER. In a sex farce from France, a seasoned playboy dentist (Barry Nelson) loves nothing more than to cut the mustard. His plain nurse (Lauren Bacall) puts an end to all that with relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 24, 1966 | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...bars, including the dimly lit Hong Kong Bar, with its bead-curtained alcoves, and the Spanish-style Granada Grill, with arched doorways and central fountain. In front, guests can wander onto an outdoor "cafe plaza," one floor below lobby level; in back, they can sip tall drinks beneath mustard-colored umbrellas in a Japanese-style formal garden crisscrossed with bridges, or take a dip in the swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Prestige Acropolis | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

World War I was notable for the testing of many inventions. Thermite came along, mustard gas and the flamethrower, but the prime change in warfare stemmed from the ability of modern industry to turn out an unlimited quantity of high explosives. What this meant in chilling human terms is the burden of Chapman's fine book. It is grave and sardonic, but not extravagantly so, about staff officers and others who contrived cushy jobs out of the war; it is pious toward the dead, and the living are sketched cleanly in a line or two, unforgettably and unsentimentally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funeral March | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...visited the elegant Biffi Scala, which is to Milano operagoers what Sardi's is to Broadway theater. At his appearance, the chef marched out of the kitchen, cried "Bravissimo, maestro!" and pointed to the latest addition to the menu-a beef fillet smothered in a sauce made of mustard, cognac, sour cream and a heavy dose of pepper. Its name: bistecca Enrico Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Top Face | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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