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...dismay of gourmets, who find the limper, leafier continental varieties more delicate. Imports into Germany have doubled in two years, even though iceberg heads (known as Eissalat) retail for up to 60? per lb., three times as much as lettuce grown locally. The Swedes, who until recently regarded salad as a novelty, now eat more than 4,000,000 Ibs. of imported iceberg lettuce per year, in addition to 432,000 lbs. of U.S. celery hearts...
...Patty who chain-smoked, Patty who felt good for the first time in a long sad time because I was the first guy who treated her like a lady, to use her just right sounding words, me, the gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose sloppy lunch eater ... (the salad fell out of my mouth, Nancy. Patty's bouncy best friend, used to sit across from me every lunch period to watch the salad fall out of my mouth) the guy who didn't know how to dance, went to Catholic school while all my Little League buddies went to make...
...tone of the evening, which is selfconsciously "naughty" and as torpidly old-fashioned as a smirk. Channing and Caesar are the consolation prizes, and they could use a little consoling themselves-say a sudden revival of Hello, Dolly! or something with the truly masterly zaniness of Caesar's salad days...
...flat generalization. And for once children are portrayed without any of the usual cuteness: Tina's two girls are devoid of any charm. They are brats pure and simple. Benjamin is slimy and nervous, like a persnickety housewife himself: everything must be just so-the salad, the furniture, the damson plum preserves. Snodgrass' real housewife is suitably hassled and frustrated by the mad world around her, but she meets it head-on: this is no sob story of a woman lost in an overbearing situation not of her own making. Perhaps her madness consists only of her willingness to fight...
...rather self-conscious graduate student sitting alone. The noon lunch hour seems to fill the room not with professors but with their secretaries or just plain Christmas shoppers. You can always tell how badly a restaurant wants the shopper-secretary clientele by the care the chef takes with the salad bowl. As You Like It offers