Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comic Albert Brooks' first feature is not as dark as Interiors, but neither is it designed as a hoot. What Brooks has wrought is a scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time. By refusing to pander to the crowd, Brooks puts a healthy distance between himself and such recent comics turned film makers as Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, and Cheech and Chong...
...first Robert Altman's new film looks like a baffling slice of metaphysical sci-fi-a sort of 2001 at Marienbad. Weirdly costumed characters with names like Essex and Ambrosia wander around a frozen, nameless city mumbling about the Apocalypse. Packs of vicious dogs appear in scene after snowy scene to gnaw on abandoned human corpses. The number five turns up everywhere: people wear five-sided hats, speak of a five-sided universe and play a five-sided board game called Quintet. What is going on? Is that rascal Altman trying to bring back the new math...
...parslied carrot spears glistened appetizingly before my eyes. I was hard-put deciding between the baked bluefish almondine or roast leg of lamb as entree. Finally, to top it all off was a succulent slice of blueberry pie a la carte. The only thing lacking was a tart ten-year-old bottle of Chateauneuf-des-Papes...
...food at Adams is noticeably better. The salad bar, for example, is markedly more varied than those at other Houses. At Adams, you can sprinkle celery salt in your tomato juice, garnish your salad with real bacon bits, anchovies or mushrooms, spread honey-butter on your slice of bread, and wash it all down with tomato juice or percoaled coffee with real cream...
...investment. But the expense of processing them went up so much that it did not pay to issue them. "The cost is the same whether the bond is $25 or $100," says a Treasury official, who estimates that eliminating the old $25 standby, plus some other changes, will slice $20 million off administrative costs...