Word: compostion
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...lunch, was Norman Mailer. Thinned down from prepublication fasting, Mailer looked a bit like a quizzical coyote as he listened to a speech about his favorite writer by John Leonard, editor of the New York Times Book Review. Warming to his subject, Leonard variously described Mailer as a "libidinal compost heap," "a cyclotron run amuck," and a writer who wears his books "like a string of grenades." Then he got round to comparing Mailer (favorably) to Dickens, D.H. Lawrence and Don Quixote. The author thanked Leonard for his mellifluous praise but genially observed that, however gratifying...
...tomatoes-on a windowsill in the sun. You can't ripen them off the vine.' " Simon should know. He made his first million putting tomatoes in Hunt's tomato sauce. But Fonda's thumb isn't green just from painting: "I make my own compost and raise tomatoes in my organic garden back of my house...
They have wilted into a stinking pile of compost nurtured by irresponsibility, disrespect, laziness, greed and moral decay, exemplified by TIME's feature story on Last Tango...
...CORPSE of the McGovern campaign, bloodbrowned and biodegrading, has been twice mashed into compost in the past week by the country's leading Democrat. With the subtlety of a retreating army, Senator Kennedy has abandoned hard-fought liberal positions in a drive to improve his position...
...Nothing so useless as yesterday's newspaper? The Minneapolis Star is running full-page house ads declaring that "the Star will work on your yard." Lay the paper flat and anchor it, the ad advises, for erosion control. Or use it as a compost-pit liner: "It is good to have woody material like newsprint decomposing in your soil." Moreover, says the Star, "newsprint ink is like dessert. The ink contains valuable trace minerals in the seaweed-derived binder...