Word: skewerings
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...brought him a dish of artichokes, six cooked in oil and six in butter. Caravaggio asked which were which. "Taste them," retorted the waiter, "and you will see." Caravaggio jumped to his feet, laid the man's cheek open with the edge of the dish and tried to skewer him with his rapier. Defamation, rent arrears, carrying an unlicensed sword-the lawsuits piled up until in 1606 Caravaggio murdered a man by knifing him in the groin over a game of tennis and was banished from Rome. There ensued four bizarre years of flight and intermittent patron...
...Font's superiors allegedly told a member of the Concerned Officers' Movement, "I'm going to cut your head off and put it on a tray like John the Baptist, and I'm going to put a skewer through Lt. Font, put an apple in his mouth, and put him on the same tray...
...Egypt made headlines by revealing that it will not at present demand a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the Middle East. Israel and the U.S. greeted the decision with relief, and so did many other nations who are convinced that an emotional, theatrical debate in the U.N. would skewer any real chances for achieving a settlement...
...Hollywood. Southern's sideswipes are nearly as crude as his characters and just as exuberant. His ear for trade talk is perfect. The book bristles with monstros, nifties and thesps used, but never overused, at moments of shattering incongruity. Though he really has no new targets, Southern can skewer venality- as Producer Sid would put it- seven ways to Sunday...
Take two parts of insight and three parts of gall. Combine with chunks of meaty research, season with flammable forecasts and serve sizzling on a sharpened verbal skewer. The recipe describes the concoctions of Economist Pierre Rinfret, 46, the engaging, bumptious and increasingly conspicuous purveyor of advice to corporations, investment bankers, Presidents and other politicians...