Word: aspic
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Angeles, a family of four can walk out with a freshly made lasagna dinner for $8.95. A comparable meal in a restaurant could cost $50. Le Marmiton in Santa Monica sells provisions for the perfect picnic. Its Basket for Two Lovers, for example, includes cold sirloin in aspic and a salad of mushrooms in olive oil, garlic and lemon juice...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...