Word: carpingly
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More than 150 followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon demonstrated outside Harvard Yard yesterday morning to protest a University decision to prohibit members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP)--an organization founded by Moon--from renting a University building for a conference...
...suits, massive cuff links, a bowler hat, and a mustache that almost rivaled Dali's in local celebrity: not the zigzag antennae of the Spaniard but a drooping bunch of Habsburg bristle, which in his last years came to resemble the questing barbels of an old and sagacious carp...
...mechanical shark rears its fake head at virtually every appearance and attacks with predictable regularity. There may be more casualties than last time around, but more proves to be much less. The prosaic shark of Jaws 2 becomes such a bore he might as well be a carp...
...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...