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...There is the French waiter at Chez Chuck, moving like a spastic Keystone Kop and offering customers such delicacies as "chicken lips with rice." Mr. Rogers, a takeoff on the dim-but-lovable kiddie show host, says: "Welcome to my neighborhood. Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave oven. O.K.? Pop goes the weasel!" Other bit players include Ernest Sincere, a redneck used-car dealer; Joey Stalin, a Russian stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt Buzzy, a gay director. Grandpa Funk, based on an old wino Williams once saw in San Francisco, always appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Robin Williams Show | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...books on analogy. She researches the products and tries to incorporate the manufacturers' sales pitches. Clever titles will give you an edge, advises Mrs. Haley, who has come up with such concoctions as "I Remember Mania's Turnips" and "Reunion Chicken." She won a $600 microwave oven for a frankfurter casserole called "Putting on the Dog," a freezer for a sandwich dubbed "Ham Snacktaculars" and a stuffed tiger from the health food store for naming it "Eaton Wright." Other Haley coinages include "Blendelicious" for a multiflavored ice cream, "Purrsnickety" to describe a fussy cat. There is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...there are a lot of F.D.R. and Anna May Wong jokes. Among the unruly supporting players, Dabney Coleman is refreshingly laid back as the heroine's hired fella, but the gifted Jack Gilford is squandered as a crochety blind grandpa. Someone should put Apple Pie back in the oven. - Frank Rich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Season: II | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...victims," including Organization President Joseph Towne, met with doctors and lawyers to plot strategy for a national campaign. They want the Government to take action against what they consider the growing danger from microwave radiation. The U.S., said Los Angeles Radiation Specialist Dr. John McLaughlin, is one "giant microwave oven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are Americans Being Zapped? | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...authoritative row, you would have needed a scorecard and then some to unscramble the dogfight for varsity berths among the top 16. A perplexed Higginson tried mixing various combinations for his defending Eastern Spring bout. But the filet mignon of lightweight crews kept on coming out of the Newell oven like an Elsie-Burger, losing to Rutgers while just edging MIT at the wire...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Crews Leave Opponents in Their Wake | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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