Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magritte, a surrealist with a sense of humor, cares little for the Freudian froufrou that once made his colleagues seem different and daring. His paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...
...cloth was swept aside one night last week by more than a hundred young students, who raided the hotel dining room and scratched out Rivera's little blasphemy with table knives. Rivera was dining, meanwhile, two blocks down the street. After a leisurely meal he marched over to the hotel, climbed up on a chair and painted the offending words right back in again...
Once a week she takes a night off, often tries out a new Manhattan restaurant, and orders her favorite meal: hamburgers and tossed salad...
...Some Sort of Craziness . . ." While many another writer (Poe, Dostoevsky, Melville) fought battles against poverty, Andre Gide did his struggling without ever missing a meal or muddying his boots. The only child of wealthy French...
...government institution, a chain of these dining rooms feeds daily some 10,000 adults, 36,000 children. Cost of a meal: one bolivar...