Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director well. Incidentally, this film will be screened tonight (Thursday) at Harvard-Epworth Church, just a ways up Mass Avenue and certainly the worthiest film organization in the area, run by friendly, dedicated cinema buffs who could make good use of your small (only a dollar) donation Duck Soup. Hail, hail, Freedonia, land of the brave and free. Forget what anyone else says; this is quite simply the best film the Marx brothers ever made. Where their other films confined their revolutionary energies to Florida, the opera house, the racetrack, and so forth, Duck Soup gives the Marxist troika...
...termed basse cuisine. During the course of the book, he partakes of not one but two meals prepared by the legendary French chef Paul Bocuse and musters, at best, a joyless respect. The most positive thing he can say shows where his heart and stomach truly lie: "The truffle soup I ate as a first course could be honorably compared with the andouille gumbo turned out by the Jaycees of Laplace, Louisiana...
...Miss America Pageant system. She accepted a job as Miss California, 1978. She knew it would take up most of her time, patience, energy and privacy for a whole year. In return for a chunk of the $1 million plus in scholarship money given by Gillette, Kellogg, Campbell Soup and other companies, she would dutifully work for the greater glory of the Golden State as a sublime slice of American...
...name game is also growing ever more trendy and even desperate as more and more people clamor for attention in a please-notice-me society. It is merely ironic that businesses with names like the No Name Bar and The Chocolate Soup (a children's clothes store) now so proliferate that only an innocent would suffer a double take on learning that an orchestra called The Widespread Depression happened to be performing last week at a nightspot called The Other End. That is in Greenwich Village, where some runners trade at a store called The Athlete's Foot...
...training for determining how much money the economy needs about equals his knowledge of Czech roads. But he speaks with an assurance that might seem like egotism -if it were not for all those stories around Textron of Miller riding the bus to work, lunching at his desk on soup and crackers and occasionally doing a job himself that a subordinate should have done. Instead, Miller combines a casual openness with almost supreme self-confidence. Says Textron Senior Vice President John B. Henderson: "It does not occur to him that there is anything he cannot...