Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edible memorial may well nourish fond remembrances of a man more effectively and at far less cost than all of the cold monuments and dull libraries that are now so prevalent. A steaming bowl of Eisenhower vegetable soup might warm recollections more quickly than rummaging through the Eisenhower papers in Abilene. How better to catch the flavor of Lyndon Johnson than by munching a deer-foot sausage or supping on hot Pedernales chili? Richard Nixon could be forewarned to start scouring his ancestral cookbooks, if only to avoid being commemorated by cottage cheese with ketchup...
...called Gibbs & Wilson, and at G. & W. creativity is king, writers venerated, research unheard of. The hero is Copy Chief Jim Bower, a dour, taciturn fellow known throughout the trade for lines like (to sell a brand of vodka): "Tell your mother-in-law it's potato soup-she'll love it." When Jim sits down to do an ad, he has nothing in front of him but a piece of paper; if he feels inspired to write a commercial about stewardesses for an airline, what is it to him if stewardesses happen to rank last...
...argument to Barbara is that he feeds, clothes and houses his workers so that they can find their souls, while she narcotizes the poor with a Salvation Army soup-kitchen dole that makes them compliant addicts of their own degradation. Somewhat overpowered in the debate, Alexander is also over matched in the role, lacking Richard son's explosive charm and easy com mand. Under Edwin Sherin's impeccable direction, a dozen character sketches in depth are expertly rendered. The British accents are flawless and the set is hermetically sealed in a world of timeless Edwardia...
...Duck Soup--New England Life Hall. 4, 6:40, 9:10. Horse Feathers...
Every morning, before he sits down to his regular 8:30 breakfast (bean-paste soup, rice, a raw egg and seaweed), he sees as many as 300 businessmen, politicians and other assorted petitioners. They gather in the public wing of his house and wait to be ushered in for brief audiences with Tanaka. The new Premier's 19-hour days do not permit much leisure; aside from golf, his chief pastime nowadays is the art of calligraphy. He rarely socializes at night, preferring to spend his evenings with his handsome wife Hanako. When he married...