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Instead, chronic complainers all, they blame Edward Gierek and the Soviets and tell bitter jokes to relieve the frustration. Like the one about the old woman who hobbles into a butcher shop and asks first for pork roast, then for lamb, then for veal. On being told that there is none, she storms out. "What a nuisance," gripes the first butcher. "Maybe," replies the second, "but what a memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Poland: A Three-Class Society | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...passed. They telephoned the Kennedy trailer at the Garden to inquire and were told: "They are just having trouble counting their people." Kennedy realized he was losing, but sounded relaxed. "I guess I had better get something to eat," he said and stepped across the hall for some roast lamb sent up by room service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Madison Square Garden of Briars | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...embarrassments? The plot is meager, the characters wear thin too quickly, the gags are often laid out as if for a garage sale. Consenting Adults does not have the emotional depth or the satiric edge of the author's seriocomedies, The Blood of the Lamb and Reuben, Reuben. In Decency, Conn., a favorite De Vries setting, the commuters and their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...most cabaret fare, comes from a kitchen that also provides more elaborate menus for the Rainbow Room and nine private dining rooms. (At lunchtime the whole Rainbow complex is a private club for businessmen.) But then, when les girls are on, few eyes are riveted on the leg of lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: High Kicks Above the Big Apple | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...Davis S. Lamb, Nairobi, Kenya, bureau chief, The Los Angeles Times...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Harvard Taps 12 New Niemans | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

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