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...British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart are several ex-RAF types, moustached and bearded, who punctuate their clipped, casual conversation with dated bits of Battle of Britain slang like "wack-o," "bang-on," "piece of cake...
...were left to the cameramen, whose attention we had to vie for, thereby dividing our forces, and the emcee, a middle-aged man named Mr. Earl whose face looked like a birthday cake with all the candles blown out. As he courteously informed whoever might be interested that the instant recall of answers that we varsity scholars had been displaying was far less significant than the more significant reasoning we were capable of, Mr. Earle's eyes got a bit dreamy, as if he were writing verses for a Valentine's Day card. But when inexpicable laughter came from...
...Party, the actors are naked, as it were, in their ordinary clothes. There they sit, in what is supposed to be a fashionable London living room, giggling over silly society stories with tag lines like "Up in a tree: you and the Maharajah," and "Lady Klootz and the wedding cake." This is not exactly American-style froth, and it sounds odd enough in American voices, with their somewhat ponderous, unmusical delivery. And when one of the voices belongs to Comedienne Nancy Walker-solid and scrappy as ever, with her hair dyed firehouse red-the incongruity is almost painful. The play...
OUTSIDE news hours television no longer even pretends to offer images of the real world. Nor does it offer fantasy that is moving enough to disturb you, to make you laugh or to scare you. Instead there is silly reassurance, something on the order of cake-eating people while there are food riots in the streets...
...Establishment. But last week, "the king of the muckrakers" had kind words for everyone around him. At the Bound Brook, N.J., nursing home where he lives, a mellow Upton Sinclair beamed as he leaned over in his chair and blew out the candles on his 90th birthday cake...