Word: sourdoughs
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Holbrook gives one of his finest performances and almost redeems the evening. Like a sourdough of the emotions, he pans the symbolic sludge for golden nuggets of truth, humor and perplexed humanity...
...widely read and respected writer. Since Happy Birthday, Wanda June is an especially inept movie, it would be comforting to report that Vonnegut has been victimized by the Hollywood barbarians, his work vulgarized beyond recognition. But it is not so. Vonnegut's own company (called, with inadvertent irony, Sourdough Ltd.) co-produced the film. His name appears in the traditional superstar's position above the title, implying not only box office eminence but a certain pride...
...Francisco has a new tradition: street musicians. Along with the cable cars, that famous bridge, the bay and the sourdough bread, the city now has a sweet sonic oddity: strains of Bach, Mozart and Telemann being tootled on street corners. The players are young, serious and usually talented. Without exception, they are determined. It takes tenacity to concentrate on a fugal entry as cable cars rattle past, stray dogs water the violin case, and an "occasional drunk keeps insisting on pop tunes...
Barbara bakes whole-grain sourdough bread every day; she has a small garden, and wild peas and berries grow on the point, Lance can skin and butcher a moose so that almost all the meat is steak; they keep their yearly moose in a friend's freezer in town. In the summer, fresh salmon, shrimp and crab are easy to come by in Homer...
...ketchup, which single-handed confronts a gang of Brand X baddies on the main street of a lonely cowtown. One of the baddies steps forward, caps come off, bottles upturn; the Brand X bottle soon lies empty in the dust. As the half-full Heinz bottle swaggers off, a sourdough voice brags: "Heinz, the slowest ketchup in the West -East, North and South...