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...most of the day. Charles' boss treats him to endless tales of a Dartmouth son--"He wants to be at Harvard, but he couldn't get in"--who is suffering from sexual maladjustment. Then there's the typist Betty, a Ted Kennedy look-alike much enamoured of Charles and salad dip recipes...
...giving simple. But once again, war up staged commercialism as pleas for money for Vietnam POWs cropped up among the more standard acts. Music, however, remained introspective. Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters," Joe Walsh's "The smoker you drink, the player you get," and Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" are a sampling of that decade's musical fare...
...FINAL TOUCH Timerman tosses into his salad is the house dressing of pseudo-intellectual speak. The finest example of this blather comes when Timerman is discussing with a friend of his from Buenos Aires the friend's plans for emigrating to Israel. Drawing a parallel with Camus' Stranger. Timerman remarks when his friend tells him his mother was Christian...
There is a touch of elaborate fantasy about the salad-dressing venture and, for two people whose reality is Hollywood, a suggestion of make-believe to the contented exiles in Westport. For years Paul and Joanne lived beside the small, tumbling Aspetuck River, where Paul would break the ice and splash on winter mornings after his sauna. They have another house in Beverly Hills and an apartment in an East Side Manhattan hotel. In the summer of 1981, keeping their former house for the use of whichever daughters happened by, they moved across the river to a small, 1736 farmhouse...
...Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan is hard cash, mainly to help strapped parents defray the expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts...