Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunflowers was exhibited, behind bars, to long queues of curiosity seekers at Christie's. Then the Ascension, or auction proper, in which Vincent's glorified body was raised to the empyrean in 4 minutes 30 seconds, a rate of climb of $147,700 per second. And third, the Eucharistic Feast. After the sale, Christie's brought out a savory cake in the form of Sunflowers, the frame made of flaky pastry, the colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green bits done in spinach, and detail added with studdings of seeds...
...understand why you wanted Crusoe to have a musket and be besieged by cannibals," she writes him. "I thought it was a sign you had no regard for the truth. I forgot you are a writer who knows above all how many words can be sucked from a cannibal feast, how few from a woman cowering from the wind...
...night Moses announced a goat feast in honor of his visitors...
...there for the Sunday Love Feast. The prospect of free, genuine Krishna cuisine and an exotic, technicolor religious experience (accompanied in my imagination by the tantalizing possibility of being drugged and brain-washed by sincere baldheaded believers) had been more than enough to excite my curiosity...
Coming into Monday's opening round of the 35th Annual Beanpot Tournament, the Harvard hockey team seemed ready to feast on its underdog opponent...