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Surely it also had to do with Herr Hens's attitude toward smoking.
Disgust is a parking-lot attendant who, in fetching Hens's car, has filled it with "smoke particles . . .
Fear is a colony of red ants that, living in Hens's front garden in Columbus, reminds him that his smoking habit, once broken, might return: The entire parcel of land was infiltrated.
I believe him, but just as Frau Hens's image is shaded, and thereby rescued from sentimentality, by suggestions of her shortcomings as a mother, so the father is spared a horror-movie monstrousness by what — you can't believe it at first — are tinkling little notes of comedy.
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Moves like that are rare as hen's teeth but it's nice that they do happen.
"That's as rare as hen's teeth".
But it's outside its mother hen's body.
It's about as rare as hen's teeth.
Turns out it's "roast sweetbreads, wild mushrooms, crispy hen's egg".
It's shades of Victoria Wood and Julie Walters via Liza Minnelli and a terrifying hen's night burlesque workshop.
Hen's Tooth.
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