Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel, he makes gaily macabre films -- an old master's last laugh at life and death...
...wasn't hard to get used to the free roast beef sandwiches and potato chips and soda at football games, either, although I'm not a big football fan and only watched from the press box two or three times...
Perhaps the most delectable oyster invention of all belongs to Karl Beckley, 34, who combines the mollusks with corn in airy pancakes topped with salmon caviar at his postmodern, pastel-spattered Green Lake Grill. Cream of nettle soup and roast rabbit with sweet peppers and glazed garlic cloves are some of Beckley's other triumphs...
...clue, people! Go South and roast on a beach with a Margarita in your hand. Why proceed even further North than Cambridge (Yes, it is possible) to shiver in an unheated cabin? But if you still feel the need to spit in the face of common sense, then you are welcome to this trip for $225 and two vital organs. Don't forget your Blue Cross card, though...
Even earlier, the lives of Mantua's rich and famous had grown so excessive that Cardinal Ercole, a Gonzaga, ordered controls. "His new rules," writes Simon, "called for severe restrictions in the consumption of peacocks, pheasants, and other game birds; only two kinds of roast and poultry were to be served at one time; no fish or oysters were to be offered with meats; dishes were not to be ornamented with figurines, fine inlays, bits of gold, as was the court custom." Women were limited to wearing "only one conspicuous gem" at a time...