Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches and Savory Pies (Crown; $14.95), she leads a cook's tour of pastry, piquant fillings and their origins. Some of her recipes inevitably show up in other books, but usually in different forms. Callen's version of pounti, the prune-and-ham pie from France's Auvergne, for example, differs in important respects from Anne Willan's formulation, and both are worth trying. The pie crust, filled and adorned to suit the native palate, is almost universal. The pissaladière of southern France and Switzerland's zwiebelw...
What the play owes to its two leading actors is incalculable. Rogers' Sir is a white-maned lion who roars formidably against his self-sought fate. He is a ham to his hocks, but he serves Shakespeare with feudal valor ("We've done it, Will, we've done it"). As for Courtenay's Norman, as his voice echoes sepulchers and his hands etch the air with images of touching vulnerability, he opens the book of acting to a previously uncut page. -By T.E. Kalem
...Just as ham-fisted hoodlums are about to ignite the subpoenaed accounts of a corrupt union, federal agents burst in, guns drawn. Then, with split-second timing, other teams of FBI men miles away sweep up crooked businessmen, racketeers and a tainted state investigator. One key arrest comes after a manic broken-field chase through the pushcarts and costermongers of New York's Fulton Fish Market. The villain is nabbed just in time to save the life of an undercover agent whose fake identity has been blown...
...others arrived, amid fife-and-drum fanfare, for a black-tie state dinner at the 260-year-old Royal Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, twelve miles from Yorktown. Reagan, loose and happy, spilled a wineglass; Mitterrand, somewhat less bouncy, ate what was undoubtedly his first Virginia ham biscuit...
...dint of sacrifice and subterfuge, the Poles scrape by somehow, and no one is starving. Families save their coupons for ham or pork on Sunday or buy on the black market. Says Stanislaw Szczepanski, Vice Minister of Agriculture: "To Poles, a meal is not a meal without a piece of pork. It is a matter of status." Those who cannot get meat make do on Sunday with pierogi, pastry stuffed with a kind of cottage cheese...