Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condemned at first. It hardly follows that any writer who manages to shock is therefore automatically entitled to respect as a worthy rebel. Yet this is how their followers regard the heroes of today's avantgarde, notably Jean Genet (Our Lady of the Flowers) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). "The new immoralists" is what they are labeled by Partisan Review Editor William Phillips, who is anything but a literary reactionary. He adds: "To embrace what is assumed to be beyond the pale is taken as a sign of true sophistication. And this is not simply a change in sensibility...
...organs on each other in an orgy of annihilation. The whole world is reduced to the fluidity of excrement as everything dissolves into everything else." And Critic John Wain adds: "A pornographic novel is, in however backhanded a way, on the side of something describable as life. Naked Lunch, by contrast, is unreservedly on the side of death...
...blue and white stone house in Gourin, busy themselves raising flowers and vegetables. "They work hard as hell in America," complains Daouphars. "And all that air conditioning doesn't do any good. Funny thing, too-both my wife and I ate hardly anything-toast for breakfast, soup for lunch, a bit of meat for dinner. But, due to a lack of proper exercise, I had a huge belly hanging out in front...
Soup & Chicken. "I sang every maid in the operatic repertory," Teresa recalls. But reviewers noticed her in the small parts, called her "the baby Callas." She had the brash drive of an expectant star. After a lunch at the White House with President Kennedy in 1961, she told reporters: "The soup was lukewarm, the chicken tasteless." She kept pestering Rudolf Bing tirelessly for better roles. In the best operatic tradition, opportunity came on two days' notice: she replaced ailing Lucine Amara as Liu. Despite excellent notices, Bing still held her back: "You have plenty of time." She retorted...
...colleges and sent $10,000 to a convent of nuns who wrote to compliment her on her courage in facing down three jewel robbers last year. She also padded around her apartment turning off lights, fretted mightily if a maid broke so much as a teacup, and carried her lunch to her office in a paper bag. Until the end, though, she kept a sharp eye on her business and a relentless devotion to her personal grooming. "It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is," she insisted. "She can still apply eye makeup...