Word: misse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Simon, theater critic for New York magazine, may be the meanest man on Broadway, but he rarely stoops to ad hominem attacks. He stoops to ad feminam attacks instead. Reviewing Liza Minnelli's new musical, The Act, he wrote: "I always thought Miss Minnelli's face deserving-of first prize in the beagle category. It is a face going off in three directions simultaneously: the nose always en route to becoming a trunk, blubber lips unable to resist the pull of gravity, and a chin trying its damnedest to withdraw into the neck, apparently to avoid responsibility...
...learned so well, in fact, that at the age of eleven he entered a newspaper recipe contest. "Cooking was considered a sissy art back then," he recalls. "I didn't want my friends to find out that I cooked, so I entered the recipes under the name of Miss Minnie Demarest...
...does get around. For ten days, it was an endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much...
Beyond that, cooking for Dr. Simon is the kind of learning experience that has occupied his professional life: "If your first recipe fails, you say, 'Dammit, I have to try it again.' It's like medical skills: Why did you miss that diagnosis? In the kitchen, as in the hospital, you learn something about human imperfection...
Says Cheryl: "I'm really pleased to live among people who are so involved with preserving what they have." But the main thing the Wrangles miss in their adopted city is intellectual curiosity and "vibrant intensity" among neighbors. "People don't talk ideas," remarks Dick. "This place is a touchstone for the primeval, not a place to discover people. This is a place to come to discover yourself...