Word: munches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Baltimore's waterfront once convulsed guests at a formal dinner party by spurning a plate of asparagus. "Asparagus," he explained to his hostess in his politest tones, "makes my urine smell." Asparagus, though, was about the only thing that Ruth would not eat. He used to munch hot dogs during practice sessions with the Yankees, once put away an omelet made of 18 eggs and three big slices of ham. He was equally omniverous about girls. During a road-trip series with the Browns, Ruth announced that he was going to bed with every hooker...
...completely expose themselves to the fancy of fortune and the possibility of disaster, I felt a fascination much different from that usually associated with watching freaks like the fat lady at the circus. Instead, I felt the same amused involvement as Bill must have when he sat down to munch on his Fruit Loops. At the same time Charlie's and Bill's lives, with their penchant for putting everything on the line, are alien to my own rather prosaic existence, I felt a certain similarity of motivation with them, as if all of us are guided...
...been almost totally neglected since the LP's birth 25 years ago; now come two competing versions. Ah, free enterprise! Both sets manage to confirm that this is the finest evening-length ballet score since Tchaikovsky. Neither, as it happens, quite equals the poetry and passion of Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in their old single LP of excerpts (RCA Victrola), but both are otherwise excellent. Maazel has an edge by virtue of his more incisive phrasing, livelier tempos and London's more spacious (and, appropriately at times, more sepulchral) sonics...
Deknatel, an expert on medieval and modern art, taught at Harvard from 1932 until his retirement last year. He was the author of "Edvard Munch," the first English biography of the Norwegian expressionist. After its publication in 1950, Deknatel was awarded the "Knight's Cross First Class, of the Royal Order of St. Olaf" by the Norwegian government...
...addition to his biography of Edvard Munch, Deknatel was the author of a work entitled "Gothic Sculpture in Borgos and Leon, Spain" and several articles on 19th century French painting...