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...disease will be a whopper...
...believe she was making up the pain. "You want to hide your face. Everybody gets tired of people being ill. "After two years, convinced that cancer was the only possible explanation, she persuaded a doctor to take a chest X ray. "That's when they found the whopper, "she recalled recently before her death. The pain had been real, and so was the large tumor in her lung...
Every day some 40 million Americans, stricken by such cravings as the Big Mac attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast...
...account for history's indifference to the logical linking of events, which can be imposed by hindsight. Only Barrault's marvelously ironic Restif, curious as a cat and just as amoral, has things right. He has a taste for human folly, and he senses there is a whopper in the making up the road. Scola's imagery has a maturity that matches the script's subtlety of detail and simplicity of overall vision. The actors play characters first, ideas second, and they are superb, none more so than Mastroianni, who contemplates age as wryly as once...
...broiling is not all that Burger King does to its burgers; after the meat is flame-cooked, the patties are kept warm in steam cabinets and then reheated in microwave ovens just before serving. The implication: if a McDonald's Big Mac is greasy, then a Burger King Whopper is soggy...