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- s lavishly elegant and refined
- Some of Sellers' sight gags are funny, but not funny enough to keep this over-waxed comedy from schussing steadily downhill at the recherche Italian ski resort where Panther's .
- Other kitchenware sellers may receive orders from out of town; only Bridge regularly gets them from Paris, where gourmets request recherche items like his tiny pea-size melon .
- The funniest reference to the same recherche subject is found in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, if I remember rightly, only that time it was a housemaid.