Word: persimmon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya, persimmon, pineapple, lilikoi (passion fruit), guava and dozens of wild berries. Between meals, there are Dewey Kobayashi's famed Kitch'n Cook'd potato chips, which are unobtainable on the mainland at any price. Whether for malihin is or for themselves, Mauians, like all Hawaiians, dish up gargantuan...
...View from the Porch, 1959, one comes to see the coastal suburbs of California in terms of them. Parallels of white curb and bright green lawn, the rising streets and bright evanescent houses, the thickly painted figures with features eroded by light, the sharp eupeptic color-emerald, persimmon, rust, ultramarine: the work was a discovery, a naming. For a time most young painters in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Diebenkorn studied and taught art in the late '40s and '50s, tried to do it, or something like...
Higgins does not tell this story. He shows his characters telling it. to each other. Oddly, they all speak the same puckish periphrasis. Listening to them is like sucking a persimmon. They are also regularly funny. When Hunter's wife complains about the violence in a film they have just seen, he reminds her that "nobody made you go there, you know. Matter of fact, I think I hadda pay the guy about six bucks, I think it was, before he'd let either one of us in." Hunter's sidekick facetiously admits to having no brains...
Died. Edward Everett Horton, 84, persimmon-faced comedian who starred on stage, screen, radio and TV for more than 60 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. With an apologetic stoop, a wry grin and timely double- (sometimes triple) take, Horton made his comic way through almost 3,000 stage revivals of Springtime for Henry and more than 100 movies, including several with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat, Shall We Dance?). Why so often the supporting roles? Said Horton: "I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid...
...then tested her comprehension of the conception 'color of.' " He was not surprised when Sarah demonstrated her ability to assign the characteristic "color of" to totally unfamiliar objects: that the redness of an apple, for instance, could also be found-and recognized by her -in a persimmon...