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...South Atlantic last October when a long-dormant volcano poured a river of molten rock toward their thatch-roofed houses. In traveling 6,500 miles to safety in England, they moved nearly a hundred years forward in time. At home, they had lived on a fish-and-potato diet, carded and spun wool by the light of oil lamps, ridden in bullock carts. In their new cottages near the British port of Southampton, they encountered for the first time the 20th century wonders of electric light, store clothes, supermarkets, frozen foods and traffic jams...
...that the problems and turmoil did not really matter. If you cut into a Brick or a Jeremy (and there was constant cutting; men and children in the serials were fatally susceptible to plot-advancing ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis did not really hurt the potato husbands who incurred it, but it gave the overworked young potato doctor (generally called Hank, sometimes Mike) a chance to say, wearily, brushing a shock of coal-black hair from his eyes, that he was sorry, he had done all he could...
...along, Freeman has insisted that doing business with Estes has not cost the Government a dollar. That somewhat misses the point. The real tragedy of the Billie Sol Estes affair is that he was able to corrupt so many Agriculture Department employees. The two suspended Oklahomans were small potatoes, but the potato digging is not nearly over yet. And ol' Billie Sol himself is yet to be heard from...
...this is not to mention, of course, the Kishke (15 cents) or the "Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato chips on every table. Or even the Chicken-in-a in-a-Basket (85 cents...
...Festival's approach to Richard II is, fortunately, straight. Artistic director Jack Landau has departed; gone with him are the potato-chip and Venetian-blind settings, and the trick gimmicks. So we are spared a transplantation to Cuba with a Castro-Bolingbroke...