Word: mayo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last spring your parents moved and forgot to send you one of those post office change-of-address forms so you are looking at two weeks of walking the Freedom Trail, discovering what is at the other end of the Red Line and eating Elsie's Specials with mayo and onions...
...fate that pervades the script. Time after time, Hitler avoids the assassin's bomb, as if some outraged providence refused him anything less than complete and final destruction. Americans were the good guys then, and they obviously like to be reminded of the fact by writers like Toland. Mayo Mohs...
...release from inaction. Hood is drawn to dramatic, gratuitous crime. Less than a year before, as a counsel in Hue, Hood had punched a Vietnamese official for deprecating his own people. Dismissed, he wandered to London where he has set up house with a bunch of almost comical terrorists: Mayo, a rich woman who works for the Irish Republican Army Provisionals and has stolen a Van der Weyden self-portrait which no one seems to want back; Murf, a boy who makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend who plants them. Together, they form a family of sorts, arguing about what...
...masquerading as a housewife and ranting against-Punch and Judy shows. Lady Arrow, an aristocratic, bi-sexual people "collector", directs prison plays and gets more of a thrill out of having her things stolen than she does from giving them away. The novel turns on Hood's discovery that Mayo's stolen painting really belongs to Lady Arrow. All action, Hood sees, is political and all politics, drama. This is true not only of the IRA's schemes but also of his own. In Van der Weyden's artistic portrait of a man of action, Hood had come to recognize...
...food in the press box--the best I've had yet. They say that Princeton has class, but when they wheeled out those ham and cheese subs with just the right amount of mayo at halftime, I was all set to transfer...