Word: mash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hemingway-Hemingway, who had so enjoyed coming to Tanganyika and killing its kudu and sitting by its campfires getting drunk and pontifical-and Henry James. Who, then, Bech painfully asked, did measure up to the exacting standards that African socialism had set for literature?" The Orient brings Bech confused mash notes from South Korean schoolgirls and a beaming local poet who writes poems about "flogs." How many poems about frogs? Bech the good-will ambassador wonders through the translator: "No question
...comfortably and solidly as the Washington Monument. "Where y'all been?" he would ask Barbara Walters or Dan Rather. Manning, of course, had already tamed the natives and educated them in the ways of the American media. He was calm and shrewd and as smooth as sour mash from Tennessee, from whence he hailed. He never failed. Somehow, the mobile White House was always plugged into the rest of the world...
...Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse, as big as the hero himself, writes manic mash notes. Bewildered, Reinhart observes, "Women in general had grown assertive, had their own magazines displaying naked men and relating filthy fantasies, took out loans from banks, tried murderers, and performed brain surgery. For ever so long now it would have been simple bad taste to buy a broad...
Harborplace on aesthetic grounds. Nory Miller, an associate editor of Progressive Architecture, maintains that "the buildings of Harborplace are a mash of cliches ?high tech, antique store, postwar modern, 19th century band shell and pavilion-by-the-sea?not well reconciled to each other nor resolved in themselves." Miller likens Harborplace to "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland...
...been out back, in the kitchen, but she came in to gather up my dishes. Except for her shape, she wasn't any raving beauty, but she had a sulky look to her, and her lips stuck out in a way that made you want to mash them...