Word: butter
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...died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well off from his bread-and-butter work of portraiture (which, wisely, is not allowed to dominate this show), and they lived in a big flat overlooking Central Park, surrounded by antique furniture, bibelots and old paintings, some genuine and some not, which he liked to include in his own canvases. (Sometimes he would make up the paintings...
...rooftop beside the spires of Omar's Arabian rococo mosque. The commandos are here to protect the other new tenant of Omar's house: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's new prime minister. With wrap-around shades, M-16 rifles, lap-tops, and their MRE's full of peanut butter, the commandos are a curiosity for Karzai's many visitors and well-wishers. These are turbaned tribal elders who gather in the old Taliban's war council room, sitting cross-legged and fingering their prayer beads in a gas lantern's blue light. Some of them greet Karzai with a good Pashtun...
...Neither of them are experienced in the bread and butter of council work like lobbying for later party hours. That’s something Paul has excelled at and they haven’t experienced...
...football, Merchant’s bread-and-butter was the option. On the basketball court at Harvard, he provides much of the same—options. Gifted with the court sense of a Prasse-Freeman, the jump shot of a Harvey and the defensive instincts of a Gellert, Merchant can spell any one of them at any time...
Debra P. Hunter was an associate editor of FM last spring. In addition to her reign as half of Quincy House’s ultimate power couple, Deb also enjoys meditation, hip-hop booty-shaking, big football players, carrots, peanut butter and raisins. Her future will be filled with fan-mail...