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...Vian's heroes live unperturbed in a world where broken windows heal themselves, where clouds smell of wild thyme or cinnamon sugar, and where a rectangular bedroom becomes spherical when "The Mood to Be Wooed" is played. If we find these anomalies disconcerting, it is because, as Jacques Bens points out in his afterward to the French edition, we are used to fairytales where the supernatural of flying carpets or seven-league boots is inserted in an otherwise normal world. In Vian, on the other hand, the symbolic "pianocktail," which allows one to get literally drunk on jazz, is placed...
...Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme...
...last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q. is the perpetrator of such neglected works as Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, and the oratorio The Seasonings ("Bide thy thyme, now thy subscription's through...
...face, a familiar Gothic landmark in the capital, now window-dresses record emporia throughout the country. His smasheroo album is in the front ranks of Billboard's "Top LPs," sandwiched between the sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...
...business." The same is true of herbs and spices. Once a store could make do with a dozen old dependables; today, supermarkets carry more than 100 items, with such old standbys as sage being displaced, as "too strong," by such postwar newcomers as fresh tarragon, fennel, thyme, dill and coriander. And for shallot fanciers there is now a Shallot-of-the-Month Club; for $9 they can receive a month's supply...