Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to be a voice for working women, to get the same kind of roar from them that Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor did from their subgroups. I see myself as a role model for people left of normal, a three-dimensional woman, not a token, not a supermom. I'm trying to show that there's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but that there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. Motherhood emotionally and physically changes a woman. Your head and your body get connected...
...Evanston, Ill., which serves specialties like roast quail stuffed with duck sausage and hazelnuts, receives raves from Stewart Koppel, a retired businessman, who drives three hours round trip with his wife Sadelle for dinner. Says he: "We keep coming back because the food is so good, and we get a kick out of the kids...
...find out if they can stand the heat of the kitchen. Says Hy Eisenberg, manager of Audrey's, the Seekonk, Mass., eatery run by Johnson & Wales College, whose campus is in nearby Providence: "We try to make it like the real world, but of course the students can't get fired...
Despite occasionally receiving a low grade for an acrid vinaigrette or undercooked chicken, the students get kicks of their own. Henry Hirsch, 26, sometimes forgets that there is a world beyond the kitchen door as he sautes lamb over the hot stove at L'Ecole. "You get sick of the food back here," says Hirsch, a photographer who wants to open a restaurant of his own. "Then you look out into the dining room, and people are actually enjoying it." Especially at those prices...
...Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill from there; in 1910 one of his versions of Bacchus and Ariadne sold at Christie's for just under (pounds)10, a fraction of its auction price 60 years before. The nadir was in the late '50s, when you could get a 10-ft. Guido Reni (if you wanted it, which few did) for less than $300 at auction. Reni's posthumous career is not one the heroes of the Late Modernist Art Industry can contemplate with equanimity...