Word: juicier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Volume II, Means of Ascent, began to run in the New Yorker. The excerpt details a shameless pattern of deceit in L.B.J.'s early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write...
...brazen, fast-talking, colorful speech of men (rarely women) motivated by avarice. His collaborator on the screenplay, Shel Silverstein, is known for his wonderfully subversive children's verse, as well as some scabrous poems for adults. One would think that between them they could come up with a wittier, juicier script than this...
...have been one of the juicier sex-and-spy scandals of recent times, but no one would have known it from the terse announcements of the French government. After the March 16 arrests of five Frenchmen and two women on vague charges of spying for a "foreign power," France last week ordered the expulsion of three Soviet diplomats. The stated reason: "activities unconnected with their mission and status...
...Miles, whose product is sold at Healey's Market, has been raising beefalo for four years. His animals are given no hormones and are fed whole- grain corn because consumers did not like the tougher, grass-fed variety. His beefalo was indeed juicier and more tender than the Chenango meat, which comes from cattle that graze on grass and are given spring water and supplements of mineral blocks and hay. A small roast purchased from Healey's was slightly dry, even though it was cooked at 300 degrees F, as suggested; stew meat needed much more seasoning than conventional beef...
Critics, social and literary, have scrutinized Kerouac for the questionable quality of his work (Truman Capote once said of Kerouac's prose, "this isn't writing, this is typewriting"), his political conservatism and his overt sexism. But the movie sheds little light, favorable or negative, on any of the juicier topics...