Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleased you chose our cookbook, A Mostly French Food Processor Cookbook, for special mention. But alas my heart sank faster than a souffle when I discovered you left out an important ingredient-me, the coauthor...
Reinhold Aman is the name in pejoration, not to mention invective, vituperation, obloquy, opprobrium, objurgation, abusive epithets and billingsgate. Aman, 41, is the editor of Maledicta, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression, which he publishes irregularly out of his home in Waukesha, Wis. He can curse in 200 languages and, with the possible exception of Don Rickles, he is the only American who makes a full-time living out of insults...
...government or a weak leader, like Rabin? We had a talk before that, Ceauşescu and I, about Rabin, and both of us reached the consensus that he was weak. I like to deal with a strong government and a strong man. In this respect I have to mention that I would have preferred to deal with the old lady [Golda Meir]. She has guts! Really! Well, Ceauşescu told me what he discussed with Begin, and we reached the conclusion that the man is strong...
...Jerusalem Trip. He didn't mention it to me before. Some time earlier a Jewish woman in Israel had sent me a letter asking for the body of her son, a frogman killed during the October War. I answered to tell her that we had been unable to locate the body. My husband scolded me for contacting Israelis. He said it was too early...
...shnook from Milwaukee who goes West when a film company announces a search for a new star to compete with Valentino. Once the hero hits Hollywood, predictable gags ensue at an alarming rate. There are the usual send-ups of silent movies and film-company yes men, not to mention the now obligatory asides about Valentino's ambiguous sexuality. Rather than recapture the high spirits of Brooks' Silent Movie, this movie more often looks like an overbudgeted tribute to the Three Stooges...