Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gourmet emporium in Manhattan, the DDL Foodshow. He has filled his showpiece with a 32-ft. counter for cold salads, 20 ft. of charcuterie and 139 chefs, bakers and pastrymakers. De Laurentiis is no stranger to the delights of kitchen duty. "When I cook." says he, "my brain stops completely...
...rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse. His daughter Patricia(Suzanna Hamilton)has been severely brain damaged by a hit-and-run accident four years previously, and is now taken care of by her mother(Joan Plowright). Pretending to be an old friend of Patricia's named Martic Taylor, the young man gradually insinuates himself into the Bates weary household through an artful combination of flattery...
...this point, Brimstone and Treacle takes on two leavels of significance. On the surface, it is simply ferocious black comedy. Patricia may be brain damaged but as her father puts it, her body is that of an attractive young woman." a fact certainly not lost on Martin. To be in a position to take advantage of Patricia's obvious helplessness. Martin must first deploy his arsenal of obsequious-schoolboy charm on Mrs Bates("can I call you... mumsey?"). "I love house work its's such a-a peaceful art" he exclaims rapturously, eyes rolling upwards...
...House Minority Leader (later Speaker) Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan who became his beloved mentor, and whom Johnson eventually betrayed in a competition to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's chief operative in Texas. "Lyndon had one of the most incredible capacities for dealing with older men," recalls F.D.R. Brain Truster Tommy Corcoran, whose boss was among those captivated by the Johnson treatment. "He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going...
DIED. Kim Duk Koo, 23, bruising South Korean lightweight boxer whose 17-1-1 record earned him the World Boxing Association's No. 1 contender ranking; of a brain hemorrhage suffered in a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini; in-Las Vegas (see SPORT...