Henrietta Bredin

That New Year feeling

For anyone still feeling faintly the worse for wear, the zippingly clever book by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash for Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus has the memorable line:

‘God, I feel awful! All my teeth have little sweaters on them.’

Happy 2009 to us all.

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