Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post for more than 30 years. Wilson's 1,000-word column, "It Happened Last Night," appears six days a week and is now syndicated in nearly 200 newspapers. Wilson treads his ex-stable mate's old path around Manhattan and keeps the same strenuous hours. The fruit of all that effort-a dollop of show business shoptalk and a few bon mots from the stars, wrapped around a demi-cheesecake photo of some starlet-may not always seem worth it. But occasionally he comes up with a genuine hard-news scoop, like his 1953 disclosure that...
...tells of two sisters who are tempted with forbidden fruit by a troupe of goblin brothers. A single taste of their juices leads to a lingering death. One of the sisters succumbs to the goblins' solicitation, and Rossetti writes that...
...sucked their fruit globes fair or red: Sweeter than honey from the rock... She never tasted such before, How should it cloy with length of use? She sucked and sucked and sucked the more...
...wanted to know why Giscard had not advanced such programs during his years in government. The Socialist vowed to pursue new policies which would ensure that "the riches of France are not confiscated by a small minority of the people," adding that he wants "a better division of the fruit of the labor of France...
...Flavors of Exile the sun bakes down on two adolescents sitting under a pomegranate tree. The last piece of fruit falls-overripe, fermenting, already crawling with ants. The boy takes a stick and skewers the fruit as casually as he has already skewered the girl's affection for him. In The Words He Said, two lovers sit by a bonfire at a country dance, tense, frustrated, until the very heat of the fire seems to raise their feelings to the even hotter temperatures of hate. In Wine, a couple linger in a Paris café. The man recalls...