Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main element of Cremonini's paintings is force. His father cultivates a gentle sensibility while coaxing locomotives up to 75 miles an hour; the son works up power standing before an easel. Among his early subjects were slaughterhouse carcasses-gleaming slabs of meat and bone which caught his eye in the local abattoirs. Later came the fishermen and bathers of Ischia, where he is living, and rock-hard women like the one at right. He works on as many as 20 canvases at once, explains that "they are all slowly maturing...
Movius noted that vertebrae remains dating back about 25,000 years indicated that the chief food source then was the horse. Examinations of the upper levels indicated that 7,000 years later the reindeer had become the chief meat food...
...many, in fact, that TV sets outnumbered telephones in six U.S. cities, and even outnumbered bathtubs in one (Chicago). They bought more food ($60 billion worth) than ever before. Per capita, Americans last year ate more than their average weight in meat alone...
...mackerel are caught off Long Island. She sometimes ladles out such unembellished advice as "remember lamb breast and shank today" or "snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality, recipes and tastes for everyone from the meat-and-potato man to the high-living gourmet. But mushrooms are not just mushrooms in her column, they are likely to be "pixie umbrellas" or the "elf of plants," and she discovers apples "with flesh so fragrant . . . they can perfume a dining room...
...could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung from meat-hooks, and their fellow officers could not lift a hand except to heil Hitler...