Word: gilded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fancy menus just gild the lily. Presentation of food, not descriptive phrases, is what is necessary." Nonetheless, beware the chef's signature. A restaurant in New York's Greenwich Village offers Spaghetti Alfredo, which turns out to have nothing to do with the restaurant of the same name in Rome. In stead, as the menu footnotes, it is "Spaghetti-Freddy style." Gallatin Powers, owner of Gallatin's restaurant in Monterey, Calif:, explains the genesis of the chicken, orange juice, and ginger concoction he calls Poulet Albert simply: "I have a son named Albert...
...Katherine Reid, 66, who in the 1920s made quite a name for herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly and do guest shots on TV shows "walking on a red carpet after they show my old films." See you later, alligator...
...clear battle plan for the Republicans on Capitol Hill. Both, moreover, seemed oddly at contrast, in spirit and specifics, with the creative pragmatism expressed by young G.O.P. freshman Senators who have taken positions, as well as seats, in Washington. Dirksen, who had risen at 4:30 a.m. to gild his rococo verbiage, never found the time-or need-to consult anyone but himself. "I've tried that consultation business," he said, "and I find it takes a year to get a consensus. The devil with that. If they want to try me for party deviation, they...
...stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...
...these splendors just gild what was already there. Even within a single gallery, the Met is worth a thousand and one days of exploration. Only the Louvre and Leningrad's Hermitage, among museums outside of Holland, rival the Met's Rembrandts. Hanging in honeycomb luminosity are 33 of the Dutch master's softest illusions, from his early white-ruffed burghers to intense portraits of his mistress Hendlrickje Stoeffels to his jeweled Old Testament parables and his bravura Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the costliest work of art ($2,300,000) ever auctioned...