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Sandys' first stop was New Zealand, which, surprisingly, made the least fuss despite the fact that it stands to lose the most should Britain cuts its Common wealth trade ties. Last year New Zealand shipped 89% of its butter, 94% of its cheese, 94% of its lamb and mutton to Britain-all told, half of its total exports. "The British government provides our very livelihood," pleaded Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, then agreed to a Sandys communique approving Britain's opening negotiations with the Six, provided that New Zealand's interests were safe guarded...
...circus: its title. Gigot was suggested by U.S. Crooner Andy Russell, a friend of Gleason who speaks restaurant French, when Jackie asked what one might call "a poor soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...
...good-and therefore as bad-as everything else." This dour viewpoint may be valid, as cocktail-hour philosophizing goes, but its polemical exposition in the first chapter damps the chemical process that produces satire. Burgess writes comically enough about TV-induced catatonia. the god-awfulness of roast mutton, and the entanglements of adultery, but the reader feels compelled to check each incident with the solemn preamble-is such and such really putrid or merely pathetic, is it cause or merely effect? Despite such shortcomings, the author's prose is graceful and precise, his wit is sharp...
...wife took another of his brood off to be baptized, but toward the end of his life took great stock in the Old Testament. He was no scientific bigot and mocked his materialist friend John Tyndall by asking how he could deduce Hamlet from the molecular structure of a mutton chop. He dismissed August Comte's fashionable positivism as "Catholicism without Christianity...
...Last week, in fact, Jiil was standing in a flossy suite in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel when Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 24, came along and took her hand in marriage. It looked like a happy match all round. Lance's mother, Sextuple Bride Barbara Mutton, 47, apparently had no objections to Jill, 19, daughter of a well-to-do Beverly Hills electronics wiring maker of German-Jewish lineage; neither did Babs seem upset by her new daughter-in-law's virtually bare-breasted exposure in a recent look-and-leer magazine. As for Jill...