Word: barbarians
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...what Philippe of the Waldorf lacked as a greeter and as a symbol of the leisurely, intimate dinner, he more than compensated for in his mastery of the art of big-time wining and dining-and of educating thousands of barbarian palates to the delights of Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted...
...Eirian (rhymes with barbarian) Williams made a study of 53 cases treated since 1897 at the London Hospital in Whitechapel. All were women. More than half did poorly, and several died in the hospital or soon after leaving. Outstanding exceptions: seven who had feeding tubes shoved into their stomachs so that they had to take nourishment. Some physicians argue that with an emaciated, enfeebled patient, aggressive forced feeding may be dangerous. Not so, says Dr. Williams: the feebler the patient, the less resistance she can offer. The starved body (some adult women patients weighed as little as 50 Ibs.) soon...
Anthony Quinn, complete with Mongolian mustache and a distempered look, stars as the barbarian leader finally turned from the portals of Rome by the Pope and a collection of cross-bearing Christians Bovine Sophia Loren (disgruntled sister of the play-pen emperor) bounces by in a chariot--with that watermelon corpulence which, in this sublimating age, passes for beauty at the box office...
Khrushchev is a drunkard, a braggart, an atheist, a liar and a barbarian. Where is your sense of common decency and morality...
...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...