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Cinderella's coach turned into a pumpkin-and Jonathan Winters' head has now suffered the same fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew...
Negotiations were finally speeded up by an artificial deadline. At midnight last Wednesday (Washington time), Linowitz's six-month commission as special negotiator was due to expire. He would not have been ejected from the conference room. Nevertheless, he warned his fellow negotiators: "I guess I become a pumpkin at midnight." They made sure he stayed to the end of the ball. After a final, 14-hour marathon session, with only short breaks, they completed the treaty...
...object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...
...point of departure, as always, is the immigrant Indian community of his childhood: where the first bit of cooked food was sacrificed to the fire; where only a male hand could cut the pumpkin because (as he learned decades later in West Bengal) the pumpkin was the vegetable substitute for a living sacrifice. He remains the outsider-as indeed he is in most of his literary locales-but through his travels he has come to understand that "Indian memories, the memories of that India which lived on into my childhood in Trinidad, are like trapdoors into a bottomless past...
Tony Hiss has decided wisely against a headfirst entrance into the debate. His father is currently pushing for a complete vindication through the courts; Laughing Last, therefore, steers clear of extended technical discussions of the Woodstock typewriter and the Pumpkin Papers microfilm, the evidence dear to the scholars of the case, and instead concentrates on the personal side of Alger Hiss and with equal success, on Tony Hiss his son. This is not to suggest Tony Hiss has any doubts about his father's innocence; on the contrary, quite clearly he thinks a great injustice has been done. Rather than...