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...ridicule is a shoe that fits so many feet it scarcely matters which one it was taken from. No prior knowledge of Mary Margaret McBride is necessary to enjoy their Mary McGoon, with her recipe for frozen ginger ale salad. One need never have heard Mary Noble, Backstage Wife to enjoy the hilariously muddled banalities of their Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife...
...unable to step back far enough from his subject to handle his account in a balanced and scholarly manner. Steinberg, in short, lacks the ability that Lyndon Johnson described so succinctly after hearing a Nixon speech: "Well, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit...
Nashville doesn't have any "real stuff," and as a result some critics had trouble talking about it. One might call them the cookbook critics--their theory is that the secret's in the ingredients. Just as the studios make movies like salad, adding a sprinkle of "love interest," a dash of "violence," a pinch of "fun," so the critics think of "plot" or "action" or "climax" as separate components to be inserted in a movie at will. "Bad language," for example, is a poor allocation, no matter how it's used...
...much of it. What little there might have been disappeared quickly. Very few of the ex-G.I.'s wore any parts of their old uniforms or gave any overt signs of expecting or getting any preferential treatment or respect. One fellow went around with a chestful of fruit salad, as we used to call decorations, and he wore his uniform for about a year. He is now an avowed homosexual and I suspect he was going through a fierce identity crisis. Uncertain of his masculinity, he was compelled to display it on his chest. Frank Cabot used...
...wife Louise, 44, and eight other friends and relatives. After a champagne apéritif 'in the small yellow living room, the guests sat down to a dinner of potage de cresson, bass en mousseline, côte de boeuf with jardinière de légumes, salad, and cheese (including a Cantal and a Gouzon from Auvergne, Giscard's home region). It was topped off by charlotte aux /raises for dessert and three wines-vin d'Arbois, St. Emilion and Sauternes...