Word: carped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little flower" and a "big oak tree." Overall, the cast is in fine singing and speaking voice, though the stilted dialogue overpowers Weary at times, and Monnen's Cockney accent seems to have a mind of its own, coming and going at will. But there's no need to carp. Acting in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera is mainly a question of facial expression and stage poise. All of the principals mime and move exceedingly well, and as for the chorus--suffice to say that they deliver a very fine ensemble performance...
...middle age with a Middle Ages party. He asked 667 of his friends (including Bella Abzug, Tammy Grimes and Norman Mailer) to "dress magnificantly -and medievally" and join him at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a feast. The menu included gyngere (gingered carp) and blancmange (spiced chicken in almond cream), all to be eaten only with fingers; potables were mead and hippocras (spiced wine). As the banquet's lord of the manor, the host was outfitted in ermine-trimmed cape and ducal crown. The price tag for the gothic gaieties...
...with chartered jets for long trips. His desire to send his daughter Amy to a public school in Washington was well received by the largely black population of the capital. But his insistence on carrying his own luggage caused the Washington Star's society columnist, Betty Beale, to carp last week that "if the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop, they could have found one without all that concern about issues, debates, etc." When Carter said he would like to walk to the White House for a meeting with Gerald Ford, the President...
...support his theory, while adroitly skipping materials that may cause complications. He does not mention the legends of the lost continent Atlantis, that must surely be germane to speculation about the origins of fish gods. Even allowing for primitive artistic stylization, it is troubling that fish-god portraits resemble carp far more than dolphins...
Outlandishly successful pop novelists rarely take the money and run. Against all the nudgings of reason, they insist on plunging once more. The critical risk is great, of course-reviewers and remaindered colleagues are poised to carp. Yet the built-in publicity is there waiting for them, and with it, perhaps, the long-suffering reader...