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...California to pose for a recent Los Angeles magazine cover story on diet and fitness, Christie Brinkley gave in to the unthinkable and stuffed her splendid 5-ft. 8-in. frame with Mexican food. Christie paid for the binge-she found herself a wee bit more pneumatic in her mauve, Lycra-stretch jumpsuit. Not to worry. Included in the Los Angeles story was a collection of hip-slimming homilies to which Christie subscribes. Most of the diet tips were standard. Avoid mayonnaise, butter, margarine, oil and salad dressings, drink lots of water and no more than two glasses of wine...
...taut, forceful direction, Douglas Turner Ward elicits splendid performances from his cast. Adolph Caesar's portrayal of Waters merits an acting medal of honor. - By T.E. Kalem
...expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden Eden, it is with the lightest of touches. Baker's ability to portray the less palatable sides of American life while keeping readers chuckling at his insights has made him America's funniest social critic; it also makes the Almanac splendid reading...
...sheets, maneuvering across a room like a hunchback tiptoeing on roller skates. To see either one is to smile; to see them together, in The Fortune Cookie or The Odd Couple or here, working variations on the Mutt-and-Jeff theme, is to appreciate the musical symbiosis of a splendid comedy team...
...opening passage of Barbara Tuchman's epic The Guns of August will soon forget the grandeur of Edward VII's funeral procession. The vision of nine European monarchs--braided, plumed, with "crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun," riding abreast through the palace gates--is so splendid that the reader, like the crowd, waits in hushed and admiring awe. This is history at its best, some say--a vision so powerful and majestic it transports the reader to the streets of London on that crisp May morning, 1910. Through her detailed and evocative narrative, Tuchman turns history into...