Word: feastings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast. The outsider marvels at the smells that begin simmering from the cooking pots. He also recoils when he sees a comrade slice the neck of a live hawksbill turtle and use the dying creature's blood to flavor the stew...
Rosen was treated equally well by the members of a small town, who took him to a feast at the mayor's palace and then gave him his own trailer in the local campground...
...India touched off a wave of anticapitalist rhetoric. TASS, the Soviet news agency, called the disaster "the logical consequence of the general policy pursued by multinational corporations, which market low-quality products and outdated technology in developing countries." Said a U.S. embassy official in New Delhi: "This is a feast for the Communists. They'll go with it for weeks...
...evokes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden; old sobersides Albrecht Dürer brings a light-hearted touch to, of all things, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and John Martin, a 19th century Englishman with a 20th Century-Fox mind, offers a Cinemascopic Belshazzar's Feast that obviously showed Hollywood the epic handwriting on the wall...
Saving the good wine for last, however, Serban offers as an appetizer to the evening's feast "A Gozzi Surprise," The Love of Three Oranges. A condensed adaptation of the Prokofiev-Gozzi opera of the same name, it is a frantic farce, of unparalleled foolishness, concerning a hypochondriacal prince who will die unless he laughs. In the course of the show, the prince is stranded in a desert with three oranges that turn into three beautiful, but thirsty, maidens. An audience must be snatched up into the realm of such nonsense, but the "Gozzi Surprise," despite the comical efforts...