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This rivalry slices deeper than most, affecting the towns as much as the teams. Washington-based Columnist Art Buchwald, who bows to no one in his disdain for the Cowboys, has smoked seven cigars in a single Dallas game and does not remember exhaling. Speaking as a Texan (Spur, Texas; pop. 1,690) living in Washington, Writer Aaron Latham describes the ill feelings he harbors toward the Redskins: "It's a gut reaction. I distrust and dislike Government, and that's what the city is all about...
...Kansas City Star and Times, for jointly pinpointing construction flaws that led to the collapse of a walkway killing 113 people at the city's Hyatt Regency Hotel; the Detroit News, for investigations indicating that the Navy had misreported the causes of death of several servicemen; Humorist Art Buchwald, for commentary...
...almost everything go their way for the past decade, the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were faced last week with a long list of things going against them: plunging oil prices, oversupplies, excessive production, drooping consumption, world recession with fears of depression. Even Humorist Art Buchwald was having fun with OPEC's woes. The columnist "quotes" a man from Qatar as saying: "Since the oil glut we've had to cancel four palaces, and make do with three used 747s for our sheiks...
Poor, poor OPEC, Buchwald went on, needling the oil producers, who have ballooned their prices from $3 to as high as $41 per bbl. in eight years, swelled their treasuries unimaginably, twice plunged the industrialized world into recession and contributed to an inflationary spiral that is unmatched in peacetime history. Now that those producers have impaled themselves on a horn of plenty, Buchwald urged Americans to have a heart and to "do unto them what they have done unto...
...some oenophiles, champagne seems a frivolous drink, a pleasant apéritif but unsuitable for consumption throughout a meal. Says Humorist Art Buchwald: "It tastes as though my foot's asleep." Yet, inevitably, the noble, pale gold fluid, its nose-wrinkling bubbles and the sense of care and occasion that accompanies it will always make the wine more of a celebration than a tipple. As they say in the Napa Valley these days, Santé! Bonne...