Word: rhubarb
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LaZabnik can't quite keep up the pace. It's a little bit predictable to have God call Satan a "little devil" and he seems to think that just repeating words like "rhubarb" and "maraschino cherry" and "kumquat" will get laughs as surely as the name "Brooklyn" will once supposed...
...slugged his way toward the 714 home-run mark last season, Aaron was annoyed by occasional hate letters and relentless coverage by reporters. Now Aaron has become the focus of an overblown rhubarb about where he should take his final swings at the record...
...different. By the emperor's decree, only Canton could be used as a port of call. This allowance was seen as a favor. Chinese believed that they needed nothing the British could offer and, according to one wide misconception, that the English could not live without tea or rhubarb, without which they would surely die of constipation...
Support. Baseball fans, the weariest group of all, would like to see an end to the tiresome rhubarb immediately. Kuhn, the tall, imposing champion of the grand old game, and Miller, the mustachioed former economics expert for the United Steel Workers of America, are both savvy, seasoned negotiators who know the value of public support. Yet both are carelessly alienating fans at a time when the big leagues need all the gate-building help they can get. Even the players are growing restless. "If there is another strike," says Pete Rose, the $100,000 rightfielder for the Cincinnati Reds...
...example. Image: Daumier doctors (no, not Daumier) attend to the ailing Cardinal Mazarin. They assume grave countenances and huddle aside for a conference with Colbert, Mazarin's aid and confidant. Diagnosis: lung dropsy. Prescription: bleeding and the ingestion of rhubarb and precious stones. The opening sequences of Louis XIV possess all the touches of realism that we have come to expect of contemporary, slice-of-life realism, but it is a realism rendered bizarre by its historical setting. Realism reified, alienated. If the characters believe the witchcraft of the doctors, can we be sure at any moment that we know...