Word: forkfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, Davis is working on a screenplay for 20th Century Fox called "Internal Combustion," "about an inventor who, through technology, is going to liberate people. He invents a car that turns on a tuning fork and makes music as it runs. Traffic noise would sound life symphonies. But of course big businesses don't want the car marketed because of what it would do to the economy. Original ideas only cause trouble...
...bluebloods, which dates back to 1802. The 400-page manual meanders from behavior in the presence of royalty (curtsying is no longer necessary-bowing from the neck will do) to homey advice on how to handle drunks or carve a chicken. It is all right now to turn your fork over and scoop peas up with the aid of a knife, notes the book, but only with elbows tight to the sides so the person alongside will not be jostled in the legume roundup. Pepper mills and paper napkins are acceptable at dinner parties, but formal two-by-two processions...
...firm moral stand against corruption with the 1977 legislation, the governments in most leading West European countries either openly condone bribery or look the other way. A confidential West German memorandum by the Federal Office for Foreign Trade Information advises companies to be prepared in difficult deals to fork over as much as 20% of the contract price to corrupt foreign officials. All such expenditures, which can run into the millions of dollars on large engineering and construction projects, are completely tax deductible as a necessary cost of business. Italy passed a law in 1980 stating that payments to foreign...
...knew the release was a draft but assumed that releases posted on walls marked "ready for release" were public. When asked why he did not ask about the procedures for releases, Fossedal said "I wouldn't ask if I went into the dining hall if I could take a fork." After the decision, Fossedal said "There was no way I got a fair trial," adding that "some of those people were blatantly unqualified to judge...
...hard, beaked face. He wore a dark silk suit and deep gray shirt, and he looked altogether like a crow who had just come back from a health farm. He hunched over his food and held his hands over his plate in an inverted V, letting his fork dangle from his fingers like the clapper inside a bell...