Word: roasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woman of the Year Pfeiffer will receive a parade and "roast" in her honor on February 13. Hanks will be roasted during opening night festivities for the 147th Hasty Pudding Theatricals show, "A Tsar is Born," on February...
...first television role, playing a reluctantcross-dresser in the sitcom "Bosom Buddies," addsspecial irony to the Pudding honor. Show ProducerMark R. Roybal '95 said the part was "primematerial for the roast...
...evening's tour de force is Act II of Tosca, with a lavishly bejeweled Galupe-Borszkh in the title role and the Hungarian baritone ``Fodor Szedan'' as her nemesis, Baron Scarpia. A much-brandished leg joint of a roast pig, a servant with an infectious body twitch and the wicked baron's narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances--from Tosca...
...evening's tour de force is Act II of Tosca, with a lavishly bejeweled Galupe-Borszkh in the title role and the Hungarian baritone "Fodor Szedan" as her nemesis, Baron Scarpia. A much- brandished leg joint of a roast pig, a servant with an infectious body twitch and the wicked baron's narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances -- from Tosca...
...grew up, for example, in a culture that recognized only four major foodstuffs: potatoes (mashed or fried), beef (roast or stewed), desserts (cake or pie) and vegetables (canned). There were "salads" too, involving miniature marshmallows encased in lime Jell-O. And there were, at the far fringes of human gastronomic experience, "foreign" foods, meaning mainly spaghetti. In those days, the only way to have fun with food was to put the peas to work as projectiles or make moats out of mashed potatoes...