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...Prince Fahd's nuptial offering: diamond and sapphire jewelry in a green malachite case, estimated to cost at least $1.5 million. Between the lowly spud and the regal ice are such newlywed staples as goblets, china, tableware, pots and pans, a microwave oven, a vacuum cleaner-but no toaster. Nonessentials included a 2-ft.-long solid gold dhow from Bahrain and a Steuben glass bowl from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. In the campy department are matching terry bathrobes with Charles and Diana stitched on their backs prizefighter style, a gift from Bridesmaid Clementine Hambro...
...Debrett's Peerage Ltd., publishers of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. "Contrary to popular belief, the Prince doesn't really have anything at all beyond museum pieces, such as signed pieces of furniture and valuable paintings. He doesn't have breakfast china or a toaster...
...such could tumble around and produce enough current to run every Osterizer across America until all the world's avocados had been turned into guacamole thrice over, all the clothes washed and dried faster than they could be soiled, all the cheese grilled in an endless array of toaster ovens...
...right," Ford conceded. "But I have dibs on the toaster oven in the upstairs kitchen...
Premise No. 2: An overly ambitious assistant professor of psychology (Alan Arkin) is afflicted with intellectual pretentiousness and a messianic complex. He is also an orphan, which means that it might be possible to convince him and everyone else that he was produced "like a toaster" on some other planet and brought to earth in a spaceship. The mad scientists put the hero in a water tank for days to take him back beyond the womb. They induce false but highly persuasive memories of his origins and, incidentally, provide Arkin with a tour de force mime sequence in which...