Word: nut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food manager at the Desert Inn had been alerted that some ice cream was coming in for Hughes and that it was supposed to be kept secret. "We still had a few scoops of the old banana-nut left when the new banana-nut arrived," Margulis says. "So we were all set for the rest of Hughes' lifetime...
...sang and danced with comic talent and lots of energy, but their characters had the depth of colorforms. Laura Jean Esserman as Gertie Cummings read every line as though she were doing an opera without music. Her laugh haunted me through three nights of horrifying dreams. Richard Rosomoff's nut-colored Ali Hakim was very, very funny. It's hard to figure why the Hakim song, "It's a Scandal, It's an Outrage...
...Bibbet, Randell McMurphy--zip, zam, zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey...
...years ago I stumbled across a nut brown man and my life was transformed. Now I find this man, Baba Muktananda, in the pages of TIME [July 26]. Thank you for introducing him to your readers...
Everything said about New York City is true, but it is almost always an incomplete truth, like, say, describing Tolstoy as a religious nut. By the standards of Knoxville, Tenn., or St. Paul, Minn., New York's streets are filthy and sometimes dangerous-though among the six largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then...