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...party mysteriously selects a candidate for the next presidential election. There will be no political scrapping, no embarrassing public exchanges. Instead, as tradition dictates, "precandidates" have quietly come to the fore. When the moment is right, probably within the next six months, President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado will anoint one of the hopefuls -- the tapado -- to be the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. That man almost certainly will be the next President. Since the party's founding in 1929, no P.R.I. candidate has lost a presidential, senatorial or gubernatorial race...
Then there is the matter of Shawn's successor. Shawn attempted to anoint one several years ago, but he dropped the idea. Now the matter will be in Newhouse's hands. It seems plain that a succession of some kind will have to be devised, even though Shawn has displayed no desire to depart 43rd Street. How Newhouse handles Shawn, still very much a revered figure in the halls of The New Yorker, will go a long way toward determining how the New Yorker family feels about the new proprietor...
CHRIST: from Greek Khristos, "the anointed (one)," from khrein, to anoint...
...second place in the world as a pasta consumer; Italians down some 60 Ibs. each annually. Virtually every city of any size has specialty stores selling freshly made pasta, as well as hard durum wheat flour for knead-it-yourselfers, and imported cheeses, sauces, oils, olives and herbs to anoint each dish. A sophisticated caterer can offer whole pasta dinners, starting with pisarei e fasoi (bean soup with gnocchi and prosciutto) through bigoli all'anitra (Venetian wheat pasta with poached duck) and baked spaghetti pie with cinnamon-flavored cream and eggs for dessert. Pasta cookbooks are churned out with...
...rasps at friend and foe. His satyr's outfit and white makeup don't distance him from humankind nearly so much as his utter indifference to pain and suffering in others. When Oberon orders him to undo the effects of his mistake on the lovers and to anoint Lysander's eyes with the potion that will restore his love for Hermia, he nearly fouls up again and gives Demetrius the charm. He says "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" spitefully, not compassionately, and sounds like he means...