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...better or worse, this is the scene no viewer of The Meaning of Life will ever wipe out of memory. In it, a grotesquely bloated Terry Jones waddles into a posh eatery and angrily orders at least a double portion of everything on the menu-and a bucket in order that he may conveniently throw up. This he proceeds to do endlessly, finally unwatchably, the while continuing to gorge himself until he literally bursts. It sounds horrible. It is horrible. It is also extraordinarily funny. For the headwaiter, sublimely played by John Cleese, hovers fussily over...
...with its dirty streets and sleazy neighborhoods, did not lend itself to Porter's artistic conception of reality, as recalled in his few drab ad tentative attempts at scenes of life in Union Square made in the early forties. So Porter packed up his easel and relocated to the posh seashore resort town of Southampton, Long Island, spending the summers at a vacation home in Great Spruce Head. Maine, In these WASPy environs, he felt at home with everything from the foliage to the patio furniture...
...host a meeting of the Organization of African Unity. Other countries constructed international airports and posh hotel complexes. Corruption was rife: in Zaire (see box), politicians poured funds into secret Swiss bank accounts; the Central African Republic spent $50 million, roughly half the country's annual budget, on the 1977 coronation of the since deposed Emperor Bokassa...
...immediately began building Casa Gallardo restaurants from Florida to Ohio. The chain (1981 sales: $20.4 million) now has 17 outlets and will soon open seven more. Gallardo, who was promoted from Casa Gallardo president to chairman last June, now drives a silver Mercedes and lives in a posh St. Louis suburb, next door to a restaurateur for whom he used to work as a cook. Says he: "They can't tell me this isn't a great country. Where else could this kind of thing happen to someone who used to wash dishes...
...only uncomfortable." Last week Prince Philip, that imperturbable aristocrat, was certainly uncomfortable. In the U.S. to inspect equestrian sites for the 1984 Olympics and to address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the International Wildlife Fund, he was invited to a soirée at the posh California Club. But the establishment, it transpired, prohibits women and has no black members. Philip's host, Mayor Thomas Bradley, refused to attend. Suddenly the club seemed rather too exclusive even for Philip's gentle blood. Being a proper guest, he deigned not to go where his host would...