Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that the novel's thinly fictionalized narrator (whom Proust named Marcel) meets his first love, Swann's daughter Gilberte. The Pré Catalan is much the same today, except that one is not allowed...
...cousins. Instead of gathering ordinary light, they use their big reflectors to capture the radio energy from the invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The curved surface of the antenna acts just like a lens, bringing the radio waves to sharp focus at a point in front of the dish. There they are picked up by a smaller antenna and piped into the telescope's electronic amplifier. The signals may be translated into audible sounds, traced out by pen-and-ink graph plotters and analyzed in detail by computers...
...Truman Capote's attempts to complete a sentence, Cavett asked Groucho: "Do you have the feeling Truman is dominating this conversation?" The rebuke silenced Groucho for only five seconds. Even when he is off the air, Cavett is on. To a waitress who brings him a well-prepared fish dish, he says: "My compliments to the ocean." Spotting Alec Guinness' name on a marquee, he instantly visualizes an apt anagram: GENUINE CLASS...
...gourmet's problem, which she defines as "the neurosis between the soul and the body"? The English tradition, she thinks, "might have blossomed as richly as that of the French." After Cromwell, mourns Miss Pullar, "nothing was ever quite the same again." "Mighty Roast Beef" became the national dish...
Writers offer their services for one main reason-money. In the words of one Harvard graduate student, who works for QBS, writing papers is "a damn good way to pick up some extra bucks. Once you learn how to dish out the shit successfully, the whole thing becomes pretty easy," he said...