Word: dish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Lives. A Hollywood star lives at least three different lives. One is the life on the screen. There, Ava has consistently been the coldhearted, hot-blooded enchantress, low-voiced, slow-moving, a little sleepy, every man's dish and every woman's poison...
David Alfaro Siqueiros is as peppery as a dish of chili and Red as a matador's cape. A veteran revolutionary, he knows just about as much about gunpowder as he does about paint, and is almost as much at home in a cell as in a studio (he has been jailed 70 times). Also, he wields a big brush, ranks second in Mexican art only to his friendly enemy Diego Rivera. Last week Siqueiros' latest mural was unveiled in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, and it made a bang, as usual...
This comparatively happy ending seems more likable than likely. But then, Novelist Sansom's aromatic dish of climate and characters has not been cooked on the fierce front burner of profound truths anyway...
...found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted to ask some questions. Said she later: "I've had a hell of a trying day." Home at last in Spokane, Virginia found that the Government could dish out a few backhand slaps itself. The house was locked; Internal Revenue agents had seized it as part payment of a $161,000 back income tax bill. Where was the rest of the money coming from? Virginia had no idea. Said she, huffing off to spend the night in a tourist...
...38th parallel, in which the fighting surged back & forth. The Chinese launched a new offensive which came in two hard punches. The U.N. armies moved slightly with the punch, but by now they were hardened, battlewise, and well enough equipped to be able to take it-and to dish it out. Overwhelming superiority of U.N. air power and artillery, used with generally high U.N. morale, inflicted huge casualties on the Chinese, may have broken much of their will to win back the offensive...