Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London Wax Museum is located at 179 Tremont St. in Boston. Who says the Red Sox is the only culture you can get at Bean Town. This place has 38 different waxen scenes, and all of them should have been candles. No figurine--except for maybe Frankenstein's--looks like anybody in particular. Great fun for the whole family, especially if the family is stoned out of their minds...
...press, its unusually satisfactory coverage last week of what may really bean epic story--the whirlwind sweeping across Portugal--ought to have been enough to give it some sense of proportion. The new spirit of Portugal may be more relevant even to an impeachment inquiry than the transcripts are, because it is an inspiring example of a people trying to take government into their own hands--something the American people's elected representatives in Congress are shamefully reluctant to do. And the parallel goes further than that. Getting rid of Marcello Caetano and replacing him with Antonio de Spinola didn...
...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...
...Very often the film is too fast and furious for its own good. Still, the scene in which everyone is grouped around the old chuck wagon enjoying a good old-fashioned bean supper is in itself a high point in the short history of screen scatology. Even more flamboyant is the ending in which the entire cast, engaged in a classic western brawl, breaks through the wall of an adjoining sound stage, where a campy musical-tails, top hats and lots of white platforms-is being shot. In the ensuing effeminate uproar, hearty Slim Pickens punches out the jodhpur-clad...
...stumped indefatigably through the state's heavily Democratic back country. To meet expenses, he passed the hat at bean dinners and watermelon feasts, borrowed from banks, and so overstrained his credit that wags described his campaign as the first ever to be financed on a Diners' Club card. At a small fund-raising event in Tulsa, Hall had to leave the restaurant, race to a friend's house and borrow enough money to cover the dinner bill. But it all paid off on election day, when Hall won by 2,181 votes...