Word: suet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quaint as that query may sound to an American, the impending shutdown of the venerable Times and Sunday Times of London is no footling affair to an Englishman. The gloom among Britain's Establishment could be as thick as suet pudding if the Times (circ. 293,000)-the nation's newspaper of record and the favorite forum of impassioned letter writers -suspends publication this week, as now seems likely. Equally wretched will be the 1.4 million readers who look to the Sunday Times for its weekly compendium of news coverage and lively analysis...
...series does not scrimp on atmosphere or the incidental grace notes that so enriched Upstairs, Downstairs. The supply of gifted British character actors seems as inexhaustible as ever. John Rapley does several small but exquisitely understated turns as Louisa's fond, henpecked father; his face looks like a suet pudding garnished with two cocktail onions and a stray mustache. The sets are lavish collages of deep textures and polished surfaces, and the outdoor locations seem almost too spacious for the limited confines of the television screen. When Louisa goes marketing, she walks by an assemblage of what appears...
...knowing to be in a Pudding show," Mark O'Donnell said at the gala opening of his Tots in Tinseltown. One wonders about those in the Pudding. A homogenous mass composed of the adolescent suet of the land, the Pudding remains in its 1930's mold even today. In the oak-panelled room, the chic play pool under hanging metal-shaded bulbs. They dress in vests and slick their hair back, but these kids' costumes aren't just dress-up. Anyone passing at night on Holyoke St., looking in through the lighted arched windows, can see that they finger their...
Flummery. As poor Brian wriggles, and each new page takes a turn for the worse, the author pea-shoots expertly at all of the usual suburban targets. Even when the satire is forced, it is usually funny, as when the suet-brained Wendy tells Brian: "In a relationship you're just screwing the guy. In a meaningful relationship, you're screwing him and also he's your best friend...
...showed you could do it... get rid of your suet," sang Bob Hope to the tune of Applause. His Manhattan audience of losers was celebrating the tenth anniversary of Weight Watchers International Inc. and cheering their heroine, Founder Jean Nidetch, who shrank from...