Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pickled okra. Spinach soufflé. Double divinity. Et, mon Dieu, ze bar-bé-cue! Escoffier would have turned in his grave. Last week White House Chef René Verdon, who is only mortal, turned in his apron instead...
...Thousand Days he has done just that. From page 1 of the book, when he sets the stage for Kennedy's Inauguration by describing the "eerie beauty" of blizzard-bound Washington, to page 1031, when he rings down the curtain on a snow-covered grave in Arlington, he follows Thomas Babington Macaulay's dictum that "a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated...
...91st anniversary of his birth, a sheaf of chrysanthemums with a card "From Clemmie" was laid on the grave of Sir Winston Churchill in St. Martin's churchyard in Bladon, not far from Blenheim Palace, where he was born...
Tastefully garnished with green peas and celery, le grand visage stared out at the Japanese people from the cover of a new politico-nudie monthly magazine called Hoseki (Jewels). The outraged French ambassador, Francois Missoffe, complained to Japan's Foreign Office, calling the picture a "grave insult" to the honor of France and President Charles de Gaulle. Hoseki's managing editor Kozaburo Iga explained that his cover, titled "The Secret of Glory," was a "symbolic composite meant to congratulate the French President on his good health and a good healthy appetite." And the glorious girl? Well, said...
...Cantabile) for the French New Wave directors and learned to compose prose that reads like camera directions-possibly economical, certainly cheap. All these skills are brought relentlessly to bear in this collection of four short novels that profess to describe four different "modes" of love. They were received with grave respect by the French, who are sometimes difficult for foreigners to understand...