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...check out the well known 33 Dunster St. They would do well to avoid the temptation. This haven for the Lacoste set is over priced overrated and pretentious What's more the food is bad Parents seem to like it but a better bet would be two classy inexpensive soup-salad and quiche joints: Grendel's and The Stockpot. both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheeseburger To Go, French Fries, Coke | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

...There's no one generic success story," she says. "I figure I can be very poor, and I can just start a business I could live on nothing just a little instant soup," she adds...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Rockin' Back to L.A. | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...humor was bizarre and not just on the screen. He gave a dinner party for Actress Gertrude Lawrence at which all of the food-"the soup . .. the trout, the peaches, the ice cream," as he later recited gleefully-was dyed blue. When Peter

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitchcock on the Half Shell | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...screen test" sequences which digress into the characters' original tales. Not that much in the way of either tales or transitions survives. The kids' ringleader is Rosie (Dede Schmeiser), who spends most of her time fantasizing about the terrible things that may have happened to her little brother, Chicken Soup (Steve Gutwillig), who tags along after her by parental edict. One hanger-on is named Alligator (Valerie Gilbert)--she's the one who sings the alphabet solo, which starts. "Alligators All Around." Another is Pierre--the Pierre who gets eaten by a lion in another Sendak book. Rosie's brother...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Juvenile Delinquency | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

...results, one is reminded, sadly, of the mathematical axiom that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow it up to the size of the Loeb mainstage, add reddish lights and a crescent moon, choreograph it for 30 people in black lectards, and what have you got? Nothing, Nothing...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Juvenile Delinquency | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

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