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...roots of the urban experience are exposed in Flossie and the Fox (Dial; $10.89). Patricia C. McKissack's comedy of a girl who has to get a passel of eggs past a predator recalls Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories. "See," says the fox, "I have thick, luxurious fur. Feel for yourself." Returns Flossie, "Ummm. Feels like rabbit fur to me . . . You aine no fox. You a rabbit, all the time trying to fool me." The fox spends so much time trying to convince Flossie that he is nearly undone by a dog, allowing the child to escape with...
...last January, have already begun to pall. As the year ended, lip service was being paid to such buzz words as country, peasant, cuisine bourgeoise and even meat and potatoes. Meanwhile, freshness took on new meaning as lazy cooks opted for unfrozen, simmer-in-bag prepared dishes. And with rabbit the In meat of the year, the most worried of all perhaps is Bugs Bunny, who now faces a fate more dire than any conjured up by Elmer Fudd...
MEAT OF THE YEAR Whether they thought of it as a rodent or more lovingly as a cuddly bunny, Americans have generally had little taste for rabbit meat. No longer. Lean and less fattening than chicken, rabbit lends itself to a wide variety of preparations, hence its now standard appearance in many supermarket freezer cases and on menus of only moderately fashionable restaurants. Now if only there were a way to stuff the ears...
...sideline eccentric; here, as the holy fool, he takes center stage. Edwall seems to take unending delight at sticking his rear at the camera; it's the least of his magic tricks in a role that has him walking through glass walls, pirouetting on a bicycle, and taking rabbit punches from passing evil angels. The only problem is that Edwall's Otto forever upstages the characters surrounding him. But if he's an angel, as Tarkovsky would have us believe, that's to be expected...
...housewife? Perhaps when she tries so hard to be the perfect housewife. When she devotes virtually every moment to making her home a spotless museum of domestic art. When she scrubs a kitchen floor that already gleams like a Versailles mirror. When she obsessively dusts the TV set's rabbit ears and the leaves on her rubber-tree plant. When she spends hours preparing nouvelle cuisine dishes as meticulous as a Magritte. When she finds spiritual and even sexual fulfillment in her dogged servitude. When she renounces friends and hobbies to remain the model prisoner whose keeper is a husband...