Word: broccolis
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...human element that supports his art. So his drawings can be hilarious, but they are never glib, or snide. A sketch such as Fagends in Hyde Park is funny because of the innocence and incongruity of the vision; the wit in seeing the bristles of a typewriter eraser as broccoli lies in yoking two seemingly disconnected things...
This may seem a drastic statement--especially to my brothers, teachers, old friends, faithful dog and so on. But look at the evidence: One of my earliest memories is of asking my mother to explain the E.B. White/Carl Rose cartoon: "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." (That caption, by the way, is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.) Other memories: we are all working in the garden. Someone holds up a piece of our all-too-tenacious ivy and cries "Watch out Fred, here it comes again!" My dog announces...
...Clint Eastwood races a champion named Big Bertha, and Comedian Dick Smothers owns a speedster named Juan Fangio, named after the retired Argentine Grand Prix driver. Smothers' wife Linda thinks she knows the reason for Juan Fangio's success: "Turtles are supposed to like lettuce, tomatoes and broccoli, but ours will eat raw hamburger." Says Jim Duffer, master of ceremonies at Brennan's, who calls the races attired in a green tuxedo: "I can't stand the little beasts. They bite...
...sure, between spading and mulching, weeding and spraying, the home gardener soon finds that bringing home the broccoli takes labor as well as love. But then, God wot, who ever complained about the "labor" involved in catching a fish...
...lobsters from Nova Scotia, a 20-lb. Alaskan king crab, 100-lb. rounds of roast beef from Omaha and pastry fantasies as arcane as Ken Russell's own visions. By the subway entrances sat an 8-ft.-long Tommy sign fashioned from 3,000 tomatoes, radishes, cauliflowers and broccoli...