Word: bawd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the standard North American Christmas dinner about as predictable as a Norman Rockwell rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from...
...poaching on an established male preserve. Pornography in all its guises had al most always been written by men and for men. Not only was Fanny Hill no lady, she was not even a woman; she was the mouthpiece for John Cleland. Moll Flanders, another notable 18th century bawd, was of course the creation of Daniel Defoe. Nin recognized this problem, and her attempted solutions give Little Birds some historical value...
...funds were drained in the mid-19th century by defaults among borrowers who took the money and ran (illustrating another Franklin maxim: "Opportunity is the great bawd"). Today the trusts hold less than $4 million: $3.2 million in Boston (now loaned to medical students at 2%), and $770,000 in Philadelphia (currently invested in mortgages). Boston Trustee Noel Morss figures that his city's sum will grow only to $5 million by 1991, when it is to be divided between Boston and the state of Massachusetts under the terms of Franklin's will. The suggestion has been made...
Peter Stein as a bawd gives one of the best performances of the evening. He had oily charm and a comic ability to keep his head when those about are losing theirs. Stein's Pompey is an ordinary fellow but for the faint stench of evil about him. He is funny without being simple...
...casual stroller who would like to think of the world's greatest playwright as the bawd of Avon will find plenty of license at Joseph Papp's production of Measure for Measure in Manhattan's Central Park. "Hence shall...