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That's the kind of food I look for when I do myfield work. To them its just ordinary stuff . Itreminds me of what I grew up with in Iowa. Myfather had his summers free, so what we did washave the biggest garden in the planet, and I wasthe laborer. We had heavenly sweet corn, andvarious kinds of beans and things like that--justordinary food we took for granted. I look back atthat as literally food from the goods...
...disappointed. Here I was all excited about that Giant Killer Asteroid streaking toward our planet. For a few delicious hours, cataclysmic devastation on an unparalleled scale hung in the air, perhaps the end of civilization as we know it. It happened to the dinosaurs; now it would happen to us! Then--bam!--the rug was pulled out from under...
...discounts the scene where Martha sits weeping on the kitchen floor looking, as a friend comments, "Like somebody stole her food." The novelty of having a movie whose main characters are women is marred, because the plot is channeled through some late-Bond era fantasy of a planet full of women who all want to serve and protect their men. Schaech's non-essential role in the movie is not a triumph for women everywhere--it's more of a slap in the face. Can women only shine in their protracted pursuit of the male species, courting their love even...
...love it. The only town on the planet where a civility-campaign slogan could be, "You talkin' to me?" And the best part is that everyone in New York, with the lone exception of Giuliani, has caught the irony. "He's got a lese majeste personality," observed ex-Mayor Ed Koch. "If you say anything critical, off to the guillotine...
Peter Ueberroth as Man of the Year? Outrageous. Most of the world cannot even spell his name, let alone know him. Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar? Let's vote for Cap Weinberger. He will blow us up and make such further nominations unnecessary. MELVIN M. BELLI SR. San Francisco...