Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them in motion. As they meander through Oxford together, their languid adventures seem more pathetic than comic-for the good reason that they belong to a world that disappeared just about the time Evelyn was writing its obituary. It is a little like seeing Buster Keaton hurl a custard pie into empty...
Sees two ice-cold chocolate Maltecs cream his sweetie pie (Françoise Dorleac...
...with whom, as James put it, she was "more and more never apart." Intentionally or not, she makes him out to be a buffoon. He was so convinced of his own poverty, she recalls, that when guests visited him at his home outside London, "the dreary pudding or pie of which a quarter or half had been consumed at dinner reappeared on the table the next day with its ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget...
...orders otherwise, patients may indulge the common childhood taste for hot dogs and hamburgers. They are spared broccoli and beets (rated as "inedibles" by the center's dietitians) and have a wide choice of other vegetables. Hopkins dietitians have learned that children in hospitals do not go for pie, so they offer a choice of ice cream, cake, cookies, puddings and fruit...
Writing, says David Cornwell, 32, who authored The Spy Who Came in from the Cold under the pen name of John Le Carré, "is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie." For all that, Cornwell-Le Carré has seen too many mud pies that are the only pies some people have. And to combat such poverty, he proposes "a scheme called 'Write for Life.' " The idea is to get well-known writers to donate their royalties from a specific new book to a fund that...