Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed De Palma is particularly tough on the youths who invite people like Swan to swindle them. They are observed to grow as hysterical over a talentless transvestite swinger named Beef (played in the film's gaudiest comic turn by Gerrit Graham) as they do over the pure loveliness of Phoenix's voice. A wedding onstage turns them on, but so does an assassination. "That's entertainment!" Swan cries, and no one challenges his all-purpose definition of the term. The terrible possibility exists that he is right-that nowadays all turn-ons are equally transitory...
...rest, O'Horgan simply grubs around in his museum of Halloweens Past and bemuses the audience with such papier-mäché wonders as a huge walking dental plate. The faggy odor of the show may be sniffed at its gamiest in a Beef Trust chorus-girl number featuring women padded out with lardy stomachs and grossly enlarged behinds...
...imbalance in the distribution of the world's food supplies is obvious to many students, but the sheer enormity of the problem makes any individual effort to correct that imbalance seem ridiculous. It's hard to see how denying oneself seconds on roast beef will make much difference to the starving masses in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But observers of the world food situation are saying that it is just such an individual change--on a mass scale--that is necessary if worldwide famine is to be averted...
...typical breakfast menu at Harvard included, among other things, pork chops, fricasseed chicken, cold ham and corn beef. Consumption patterns have changed somewhat since then, but--in a world where 10,000 people die of starvation every week--it seems that Harvard and Radcliffe students still consume more than their fair share of meat. Beef now appears on the menu in some form at least once a day, and students can help themselves to as much as they...
...fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from...