Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fall Down. Angela Lansbury is painful and fascinating as a mother hen who clucks inanely over a bad egg (Warren Beatty), but the picture is just painful...
...last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped by an egg. Each day Brancusi had caressed these pieces, and each night covered them with cloth...
...Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering palsied pulseless lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins." Thus D. H. Lawrence in a letter to a friend, writing on the subject of his homeland. But Lawrence distributed his displeasure evenhandedly; he had equally sharp words for the U.S.: "It's so tough and wearing, with the iron springs poking out through the padding . . . Americans are not younger than we, but older: a second childhood...
...them on "difficulties" in the chain of command. Maintaining a straight face. Jouhaud announced: "We deplore everything that opposes the two communities" of Europeans and Moslems, and insisted that the S.A.O. played the part of "moderator" between them. Cross-examined by the president of the court. Jouhaud tried to egg-walk his way between support of the S.A.O. in general and denial of any knowledge of serious S.A.O. crimes...
...worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single egg in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper...