Word: paunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maturity during the decade past, a Dylan concert is a three-hour detour through deja vu. Like images on Plato's cave, Clearasil coeds with Joan Baez hair and men silently hunkered inside thick pea jackets appear and quickly pass- yesterday's graduate students, now headed toward paunch or pregnancy. Dylan concerts draw people who inhabited the fringes of campus teach-ins, rode Mississippi freedom buses and marched down endless University Avenues searching for an end to the draft...
Henri Gault and Christian Millau have much in common. Both are 44-year-old Sunday cooks and year-round gourmets-curiously slight of paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter...
...surviving works of monumental size, but the smaller objects, dug out of the rubble of Tell el Amarna and now on exhibition in Brooklyn, testify dramatically to the marked change in style and approach that the young Sun King instigated. It was a new particularity - a King with a paunch, a courtier with a sullen mouth, a sensuous Queen. Even the beasts of the field were liberated from the frozen rhythmic frieze of an earlier time. The result was an art vivid as yesterday, eternal as tomorrow...
Some of the performance is wasted on radio. Eyes popping, goatee aquiver, paunch abounce, his whole body keeping time with the music, he seems to live every song as a new experience...
Carnal Knowledge. 1971 directed by Mike Nichols, starring Arthur Garfunkel with a paunch, Candice Bergen in the role of Smith graduated suburban housewife that she was made for, Jack Nicholson throwing maybe his best tantrum ever, Ann-Margaret living-in big-breasted. Filmed with a cold slickness that spells out the soullessness of middle-class sex. Abbey 9:30, Plaza...