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...over themselves with a sense of shame for what Warner Bros, did to her. Hollywood people would not know quite how to act with her anyway, because they see her sort so rarely. She is straightforward, amiable, eager to please, and her only eccentricity is a fondness for boiled-potato sandwiches. She wears little makeup, even when she is being photographed. She is infectiously enthusiastic. No matter how much pressure she is under, she never boils over...
...result may put pounds on the populace, but "It also means an astounding expansion for the snack industry, which last year accounted for almost $2 billion in sales of everything from potato chips to pretzels to pralines. Attracted by such growth, dozens of big companies have hastened to get in their licks. One such is the Borden Co., a conservative, 107-year-old dairy company that bought out Cracker Jack and a pretzel and corn-chip manufacturer as part of its diversification program. Last week, Borden's continued to nibble, announced that it will acquire the Wise Potato Chip...
...should see the pile of ironing I still have to do, Martha, but that "One Potato, Two Potato" is certainly a wonderful movie. It's about this nervous, unhappy girl--Barbara Barie, did you see her on "Mr. Novak" last week? She played a nervous, unhappy teacher. Anyway, this white girl was married to a really irresponsible nogoodnik. He left her with a little baby, and took off for the oil fields and adventure of South America so she divorced him. Then she meets this black person, a really fine man. So they get married...
...nothing better to do, Larry Peerce (he's Jan's son!). I know the orchestra sounded like the organ on "Young Doctor Malone," but an organ's an organ. And, also, usually those festival prizes go to movies I never understand. I mean I certainly liked "One Potato, Two Potato" but some young people left the theatre muttering about how important a "nuclear family" is. But I guess some people never stop thinking about the bomb...
...that Saul Bellow is just too nice a guy. He obviously wishes the world well; he wants the world to be pleased with him; and this benevolence, or "potato love," as Bellow calls it, may have damaged the work of a writer who has long been on the threshold of the U.S. literary pantheon but has never quite managed the "big" novel that would put him there permanently...