Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beaches of tonier Antibes, Juan-les-Pins and Sardinia. By now the fad has become so familiar that Le Figaro's food critic has commented that "a breast leaning into a local salad is as removed from sexuality as a nose, an ear or a heel bone...
...program's most enthusiastic endorsements, however, come from the cancer patients themselves. Says a 31-year-old divorced mother of four, who lost a leg to bone cancer last year: "If I could have seen someone then who had had the same operation and was walking around, it would have helped...
...delegation caucuses with other candidates, arguing his case. Before the credentials fight, says Gary Hart, "he was as apprehensive as I've ever seen him. It knocked him off his stride." As McGovern monitored the battle on TV, he sat shoeless and tieless on a couch eating a T-bone steak and ice cream, and occasionally fondling his month-old baby grandson Matthew. At 3 that morning, Eleanor McGovern drove back to the Doral from the convention center; when she got there, she found that the candidate had gone to sleep...
Whatever the merits of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint as a novel, it is certainly the greatest closet nightclub act of our time. In sketch after sketch, Roth cuts into the family and sex life of a Jewish neurotic until funny bone and inflamed nerve ending become indistinguishable. "I'm caught in the middle of a Jewish joke," cries Alexander Portnoy to his psychoanalyst, "and it isn't funny...
...beggar's hurdy-gurdy; the sole object of his scrutiny was man and woman and their intimate possessions - the texture and sheen of velvet, the transparency of a glass, or (as in the Wrightsman Magdalen) the exact difference in the highlights that a tallow flame creates on the bone of a skull and on the grayed sea luster of a pearl. But La Tour was not a painter of still lifes with figures. A phrase like "the human condition," though worn, is not to be avoided: it was his field, and he covered it with an immense and suave...