Word: schnitzel
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...name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most cheerfully so. Nabokov once pointed out in print that the novel is devoid of message, ideas or Freudian "Wiener schnitzel dreams." The despair of the title therefore may only have been that of the penniless young ex patriate author who supported himself by giving tennis lessons and no doubt feared that he would have to go on saying "Smotrina myachik" (Keep your eye on the ball) for the rest...
...Kennedys, the John Lindsays and the Charles Percys ski there. After a hard day on the slopes, the night life warms up in the 30 restaurants and bars, and skiers cluster over Swiss wine and superb antelope schnitzel at Gashof Gramshammer, which is owned by a former Austrian ski champ. The younger set is likely to converge at Donovan's Copper Bar or the Nu Gnu or the Ore House, where the talk-and interest-seems to focus on skiing above all else, even sex. The newest favorite place is the Ichiban, a Japanese restaurant run by a sociologist...
...despite the chain's name, is ersatz Tyrolean rather than Viennese. Each unit combines such decorations as gingham curtains, fake wooden beams, simulated carriage lamps, leatherette settees and plastic flowers. The menu has remained basically fowl, emphasizing chicken in several forms, with a few excursions into wurst and schnitzel. The birds are heavily laced with salt and paprika, which tends to give customers a powerful thirst. Jahn's cash registers thus tinkle along with sales of wine and beer...
Sailor Suits. Among his latest acquisitions are two Manhattan landmarks -Luchow's, where the schnitzel has been unadorned for decades, and Charles in Greenwich Village, where the menu used to be sensible and the decor genteel. Now Charles has burst into a kind of bordello Byzantine, where a female harpist plucks away and the lighting is too dim to see the food (not that one would want to). So far, mercifully, Ellman has left Luchow's alone...
Many of the smaller parts were nicely done. Cutler, by some magic process, manages to make humor out of grotesque, voweled mumbling--and, more important, keeps the device from swelling into a gigantic bore. Clayton Koelb is a lusty schnitzel, the Viennese whose speech problem is ignorance of French. Koelb's German is clean, his legs are in fine order, and his desire to bed some Fraulein is unshakable...