Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longest interrogation any nominee has had to endure since Congress began holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1939, and he handled himself with considerable grace ^ under pressure. On Saturday, the last day of his testimony, Bork talked about how serving on the high court would be an "intellectual feast," and how he wanted to leave a "reputation as a judge who understood constitutional governance." There was one moment, however, when the strain seemed to affect him. After Senator Leahy took the judge to task for never doing pro bono work during his years as an attorney, Republican Gordon Humphrey retorted...
Bork, asked why he wanted to be on the high court, said it would be "an intellectual feast" and added that he would like to leave his mark...
South Africa, 1958. Red dust, low green hills. A bride and groom make their way through a crowd of swaying villagers who clap and chant a ritual wedding song. Tribesmen draped in striped blankets beat the rhythm on painted drums. After the marriage feast, the couple walk in the countryside. She gathers the train of her bridal dress with one hand; the other is intertwined in his. "If only we didn't have to go back," he says. She looks up, all fresh anticipation. "I wonder what our life will be like?" she asks. Then: "I know one thing. Life...
That cloud, at least, turns out to be silver-lined. In this entertaining account of his Americanization, Aksyonov finds a country as exasperating as his own. His life becomes a feast of surprises, like TV newscasts with little real news but lots of murder, unemployment and homelessness, just like the Soviet press carries about the U.S. The solipsism of American novelists distresses him, as do the squalor of the South Bronx, the smell of popcorn in movie theaters and the fondness of Washington politicians for jogging. "Public figures are not to be seen running through the streets of Moscow with...
Itami turns this meal of a movie into a feast by spicing up the main plot with a wacky subplot to make clear the connection between food and sex. Two characters who keep returning are a hedonistic gangster (Koji Yakusho) and his loving, ever-ready moll (Fukumi Kuroda). In one love-making scene, he dips her breasts in whipped cream, and in another he seasons them with salt and lemon juice before licking it all up. Later, he takes an egg yolk in his mouth; they pass it back and forth as they kiss until she climaxes, and the yolk...