Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Short-order success is nothing new for the Alabama-born lawyer. Dees has been an acquisitive competitor ever since he won childhood Easter-egg hunts by getting other kids to give him their eggs in return for a bite of the chocolate prize. During his undergraduate and law-school years at the University of Alabama, he and a partner parlayed a birthday-cake agency and other enterprises into a six-figure business. The two then put off practicing law to set up a marketing group that sold specialized cookbooks, among other things. It soon grew into one of the South...
...rather than composing one. There are exceptions. Argentina's Jorges Luis Borges, for example, builds exquisite doll houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez completely and gloriously occupied his mythical territory of Macondo, a tropical Yoknapatawpha...
...coach Ferny Flaman, who was hoping that this year the Huskies would have some bite, Once again it's wait until next year...
...Bulldogs possessed neither bark nor bite, and thus Harvard racked up the easiest of its seven hoop triumphs this winter, Yale, on the other hand, fell for the 13th time in 16 tries...
...inches, that journalistic institution still manages to encapsulate crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well-drawn strokes. Two new paperback editions underscore the point. On the far side of history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and the Tammany Tiger. Nast's gentler conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously...