Word: falstaffian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miner), her best friend and a kind of Falstaffian mother-hen realist, knows better, partly because she has read the morning society news announcing Ellis' fiancee. It is not Dorothea...
Gone from that team are captain Dan Waldman--one of the great names in Harvard tennis history--then-freshman Dan Gerken, and Falstaffian doubles player Cliff Adler...
Robert Carrier, 54, a Falstaffian fellow from Tarry town, N.Y.. who owns two of England's most sumptuous restaurants, Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk and London's Carrier's: "Every time you travel, come back with a dish, not a postcard. Learn to cook the secrets of the world and make them your own by adding curiosity and daring. Toss aside all hoity-toity rules and regulations. When entertaining, make only two dishes, which you must know. Try out anything...
...stay out too late making merry with Falstaffian types. Because Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m., Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys will raise the roof at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge with straight, 100 per cent mainline bluegrass. Nancy Tallbot, who seems to singlehandedly run the Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass and Old Time Country Music, which is sponsoring Stover's appearance, calls Stover "one of the four or five best banjo players in the world. "According to Tallbot, Stover first came to Boston from Clear Creek, W. Va. in the early 50s. After getting...
With that end in mind, Guccione chose Italian Tinto Brass to direct his movie. Virtually unknown even in Italy, despite ten pictures to his credit, Brass had won Guccione's admiration with his last film, Salon Kitty, a spy thriller set in a Nazi brothel. Brass, a Falstaffian figure with a temper as big as his waistline, soon decided that Vidal's script was too bourgeois for his taste. "It was the work of an aging arteriosclerotic," he says. "Vidal redid it five times, but it was still absurd." With the help of McDowell, Brass rewrote the screenplay...