Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay for a movie based on his earlier work. Vegas. Dunne views the creation of fiction as organic. People and plot grow together: "The situations is worthless without a character, and the character is worthless without a situation: asking which came first is the chicken or the egg question...
...Bent overplays Hochepaix, greatly underestimating the audience's ability to understand far from subtle shades of meaning. It is enough to be told that Hochepaix waged a campaign against Ventroux in which he called Ventroux names such as "traitor," "rotten egg," "stool pigeon," and "decaying garbage." Bent's winking and gesturing to the audience whenever he says something sarcastic is a bit extraneous...
When I make a salad dressing of oil and vinegar, I now generally use a malt vinegar rather than red wine vinegar because it is "sweeter" to the taste. Sometimes I add more than a dash of dry white vermouth. The exact recipe is ½ teaspoon of egg yolk put in a bowl with 1 tablespoon each of mustard and malt vinegar, plus a generous grinding of black pepper and, perhaps, a bit of finely minced garlic. I beat the mixture with a wire whisk while gradually adding 3 tablespoons of good olive oil. Last come 3 tablespoons...
...Then attention is automatically diverted from our own personality." The cultural aim of these reductions and renunciations? In four words: to change the world. To a very small extent, the Stijl group succeeded in this, since its theory of design helped banish ornament from all objects of everyday use, egg-cups to architecture...
...child of about eight, with him. She will share a bedroom with the old man, hear his explanation of why a countryman needs no alarm clock, play sensuously in the grain stored in the barn and, while her father and uncles are at the funeral, find a symbolic egg and present it to her grandfather. She alone among the visitors will cry for the dead woman and elicit answering tears from her grandfather. Thus do the innocence of childhood and the simplifying wisdom of age find common ground, and strike a sweet, clear note of hope, quite unsentimental as Rosi...