Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most squalid city in Italy." The most squalid city in Italy has music in its streets, cluttered pink and white buildings, seagulls screaming overhead, a bright blue waterfront, a Roman amphitheater where Gennaro-patron saint of Naples-achieved his exaltation simply because a pride of lions refused to eat him. It now has a municipal slogan: "What a woman we have exported." Romilda's health was poor, and her breasts went dry. Little Sofia-the ph was inserted later because it seems more exotic to the Italian eye-was turned over to a hired wet nurse. From...
...almost always Dior. Jean Barthet of Paris makes her hats. She has had the same private hairdresser for eight years. "I have never been to a beauty parlor in my life," she says, setting up a memorable non sequitur: "When I go there, they ruin me." She eats reducing tablets to help keep her measurements from becoming 38-38-38. She loves spaghetti with meat and tomato sauce, hot peppers, and grapes. "It still seems an occasion to eat meat," she says, and her childhood hunger now turns up in her terms of endearment. She calls Carlo Ponti her "Melanzana...
...mitzvah for a partner's son and intones throatily. "To a boy. fare well. To a man, hello!" The boy's father, thanks to Harry, is about to say hello to a prison warden when Harry's Mama breaks misty-eyed into a song called Eat a Little Something (suitable subtitle: :I'll Cry To day), chiding her son for neglecting his character. It falls to Harry's old boss to give him a second chance and a hearteningly fresh moral viewpoint. In one sentence: it is better to be rich and honest than rich...
...This pretty doll, that's me. Good enough to eat, that...
...prove this theory, they put toads in cages and offered them live dragonflies, bumblebees and robber flies. Inexperienced toads accepted all three alike, but toads that grabbed the bees got stung. Once stung, they would eat neither bumblebees nor robber flies, though the flies, in spite of their appearance, could not sting them...