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...over the country at any given time. Besides such novelty vegetables as sugar-snap peas, pearl onions and spaghetti squash, she stocks Asian pears from Japan, loquats from Chile and Mexican Burro bananas. Inspired by her success with the kiwi, Caplan has gone back to New Zealand for tamarillos (tart, egg-shaped tree tomatoes), pepinos (purple-striped golden melons with a silken texture and a flavor reminiscent of pears and honey) and kiwanos, which she describes as the "weirdest looking fruit." They are brilliant orange on the outside and bright green within, and have a banana-lime flavor...
...weeks she had ducked questions about her future plans -- and then there she was for millions to view, on the Phil Donahue show. Linda Ellerbee, the tart-tongued Texan beloved by night-owl viewers from her days on nbc News Overnight and by early-morning types because of her popular "T.G.I.F." feature each week on Today, had quit the network in a salary dispute. She was known to be dickering with ABC, and CBS had offered her the co-anchor slot on its perennially low-rated but soon-to-be-overhauled Morning News. Now word...
George (Hoskins), recently released from jail where he was taking the rap for his boss, takes a job as a driver for Simone, a "tall, thin, black tart," (Cathy Tyson) who drags him into her personal tragedy, a desperate search for her friend Cathy, a 15-year-old prostitute and heroin addict...
...obscurity, leaving only the ghostly echo of her catchphrase laugh, "Wowoweeweewoh!" Her history is recalled through the reminiscences of onetime colleagues. Wilk is a cunning observer of show-business mores, and he knows as well as his heroine exactly how to time a laugh. There are plenty in this tart tale...
Some of the more interesting delicacies on the menu: pigs' feet cassoulet, beaver confit, stuffed goose's neck, eel gratin and frog tart. Other attractions were a 4-ft. 5-in. candied Eiffel Tower, a 10-ft. vegetarian paella dish and a gigantic cooking pot 10 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. The buffet organizers topped off the pot presentation with a pinch of culinary cuteness: they had a jazz band called Haricots Rouges (translation: Red Beans) play music...