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...gave full vent to his rabble-rousing style while stumping for fellow far-rightists last month. He declared that many incumbents "deserve to be hanged" for corruption. He provocatively denounced European integration as "Hitler's dream come true." At one rally, he walked onstage with a platter bearing a papier-mache head of his main Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted by a pro-Socialist crowd, Le Pen leaped...
...Ethel Barrymore and Molly Picon looked on, another great performer sat at the head of his table at Sardi's and devoured his chopped sirloin--very rare--from a silver platter. One might have been tempted to say Pa was a lucky dog, but there was no luck involved in being the guest of honor at the annual Dog Fanciers Club luncheon. It took 500 years of breeding, 90 years of experience and one squeaky toy to get Pa this special meal. "Actually," said Pa's "ma," Rita Holloway, "he likes his hamburger cooked, with a little salt and pepper...
...start work, I am still going to have all the housework to do in July and August, only with even less time to do what I do now. And, more importantly, when next year is over and I finally do become Career Woman, I will have an ever-growing platter of household tasks to attend to. With any luck, I'll still have great roommates to share the jobs and teach me the domestic arts I have always refused to learn. Still, no matter what my occupation, I will always be a homemaker. Slowly, I'm learning...
...last Thursday's class, about 20 students watched a video screen as a woman marched down a hall followed by a number of cooks carrying a large food platter. The cooks then set down the platter in front of the woman's husband...
...wife pulled the sheet off the platter to reveal a steaming human corpse on a bed of lettuce, garnished with broccoli, cauliflower and lemon...