Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncle Sam hat and costume and the forcefully extended index finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...
...pork in a pit, and a gravelled parking lot full of jacked-up Chevelles and the irresistible odor of the cooking. Inside the place, a couple of country boys beside the counter or the beer cooler are flirting with the waitresses who make the plates up from barbecue, potato salad, slaw, and hush-puppies, and put the take-outs in shiny paper bags. There's not even a juke box just a little radio playing Conway Twitty or Loretta Lynn or Donna Fargo...
SMOTHERED in aluminum foil like a baked potato or a TV dinner, it's a changed Woody Allen that the doctors unwrap and usher into the yea 2173 at the beginning of Sleeper. Allen has really written this picture--it's painstakingly mapped out--and most of the jokes, for better or worse, are inherent in the science fiction scenario of a post-holocaust future two hundred years from now. The same is true of the hero's new persona, which flows out of the scripted material like soup from a can, Allen sealed--maybe too tightly--in the perfect...
...unit-price labeled such commodities as potato chips, pretzels, cakes and breads. Several brands of detergents and condiments also were not labeled...
...gold." Aside from any curiosity over the title, he is all but forgotten until the last line. Then the actors ask, who is Mons Herbert, anyway? Four actors act and sing the roles of misnamed, star-crossed lovers and their experience with a flend in search of a potato salad recipe. The playing out of these situations takes us through a beauty contest for cows, the trauma of a lost barometer, a Firesign Theatre-type game show called "Justify Your Existence" and a Kafkaesque IQ test. The show does have a plot, however disguised it is in these absurd digressions...