Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worms in the Classics. For the first time, Stalin's successor shed the pretense of "collective leadership" to dish out his own ideological pronouncements. They were earthy and anything but liberal. Khrushchev sneered at "hardheads," "Talmudists" and "parrots" who "learned by heart" old theoretical phrases "not worth a kopeck...
This box lunch may not be everyone's dish, but it is at least something to see a British writer indulging in overstatement. Says Author Golding's victim, as his innards are slowly being poisoned by his diet of limpets: "I am in servitude to a coiled tube the length of a cricket pitch." This may be existentialism, even poetry, but it is not cricket. A pitch's length: 66 ft.; average adult intestine...
With a personal fortune of at least $20 million in Snia Viscosa stock and other assets, Textileman Marinotti dreams of forsaking his sideline for his main interest. "Art," he says, "is the only explanation for life." He has visions of a retirement spent painting, writing poetry, cooking (favorite dish: chicken à la Strogoff) and collecting the great art of the past. But Artist Marinotti is too much of a businessman for that...
Before T (for test) time, all eyes look for the now familiar telltale signs: the radar search dish on the Cape begins rotating; crash boats put out to sea; the yellow warning spheres are hoisted atop the 90-ft. poles; the eight massive service towers and gantries clank and clatter. The tips of the missiles are often visible on the skyline. "Conducting tests on the Cape," said one missileman, "is like performing research in a fish bowl...
...musicians has what could be termed a big tone; and each of them tried to hide the fact by forcing his tone to the point of buzzing. This resulted in harshness rather than playing of tang and guts. The more restrained music of Haydn is obviously their proper dish...