Word: boils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jacoby brought the conflict to a boil when he abruptly pushed aside a potential successor, Donald Zuckert, president of Ted Bates Advertising/New York. At the same time, Jacoby elevated two of his favorites without getting any nod from the Saatchis. The brothers retaliated by dumping Jacoby from the top job and installing Zuckert. The combative Jacoby heightened the melodrama, whether intentionally or not, by removing his portrait from a prominent wall at the agency and by accusing the Saatchis of breaking his five-year contract. "I don't know what happened. They hadn't told me they were going...
...cabin of the shrimp boat, bound for the Gulf of Mexico, are these: one Sunbeam Master Chef charcoal grill, three spatulas hanging from eye hooks, a slicker, half a dozen greasy life jackets, a pan full of plastic dishes, a box of Zatarain's crab boil (since 1889), a bottle of Hunt's All Natural barbecue sauce, a bottle of Seven Seas Viva Italian dressing, a bottle of Formula 409 all-purpose cleaner, a can of Bush's Best whole-kernel golden corn, a can of Shurfine early harvest sweet peas, a can of La Choy meatless chow mein...
...oversized and ungainly, with a thatch of unruly black hair, buck teeth and thick glasses, the one who was predictably chosen last in sandlot games. Mr. Inside was the fatherless boy who held a lot of "anger that has never been directed. In my inward life, I still boil a lot." So it is no surprise that many of King's books could be fairly called "The Revenge of the Nerds": the ursine kid with the bad eyes and the shambling gait would find a way to get his own back, even if it took him 20 years -- especially...
...Gould and Dee Wallace Stone play parents who decide to adopt a child and wind up with two: a 14-year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about the way the daughter, who was adopted years earlier, resents the attention given the newcomer. Gould...
...must repeatedly give assurances that all the words in the book are Hemingway's. He must also defend his cuts and rearrangements against purists and scholars. Hemingway left some helpful comments in the margins, but more often Jenks was on his own when he had to boil down dialogue, eliminate repetitions and remove characters and a subplot...