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Nothing was to be too grand for Texas' 150th birthday, not even a visit from the Prince of Wales. And so there stood Charles last week, biting into his first taco, cutting a slice from a 90,000-lb. sesquicentennial birthday cake and receiving an 18-inch ceremonial gavel from the state legislature. The gavel, he said, was "the biggest I've ever had, which is entirely appropriate because it comes from Texas...
This means, for the benefit of the great unwashed who have never seen a Pudding show, that every slice of dialogue is a self-transcending attempt at stupider jokes than the ones before. And the authors have outdone themselves this year. Whether it's the Bible, Consumer Reports, or the game-show circuit, Jess Bravin and Peter Sagal have plumbed the depths of Americana, Harvardiana, banality and even hallowed Tradition to create some of the longest strings of groan-inducing one-liners in history...
Fences is an import from the Yale Repertory Theater, which also originated Ma Rainey. Once again, Playwright Wilson heaps too much plot onto a slice-of-life structure, but he gives Jones one of the very best roles of his career. Troy Maxson is a frustrated man of 53, a former baseball player who was too old to have made the jump from the Negro leagues to the majors. A former lowlife who has lived for duty, respectability and the right of absolute authority at home, he destroys everything he achieved and leaves no one to mourn him. Jones revels...
...move also bolsters Pepsi's position in the fast-growing market for citrus drinks. Pepsi scored an instant hit last year, when it introduced Slice, a lemon-lime soda containing 10% real fruit juice. Designed to appeal to health-conscious sippers, Slice had 1985 sales of about $400 million. Pepsi unveiled a new mandarin-orange version of Slice last week, but Coke countered with an announcement of its own. In February, Coke's Minute Maid division will market lemon-lime and orange soft drinks containing fruit juice and try to take a slice out of Slice's sales...
Were it not for a tendency toward improvidence among a certain slice of our society, the seven would not have flown. Consider the name of one: Chapter XI. According to Julie Moore, the "wrench," or mechanic, on Chapter XI, the bomber burns 150 gallons of gasoline an hour, and a quart or two of oil. Taking maintenance into account, she estimates the operating cost at $650 an hour. A co-owner with her husband Jack Moore, an emergency-room physician in Sarasota and a former naval flight surgeon, she proudly displays her simple silver wedding band. "You will notice...