Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parabola of the Porter career is one beloved by backstage biographers. As Brendan Gill's brisk, uncritical Cole showed, the life was filled with laughter, tragedy, a soupçon of scandal and above and below all, money. For unlike the customary theatrical melodrama, Cole's life progressed from riches to riches. Schwartz's Cole Porter is marred by ungainly prose, but its detail is copious and its story irresistible...
...Kick out of You and Blow, Gabriel, Blow to the romantic experimental ballads Night and Day and Begin the Beguine. His polished lyrics have rarely been equaled-some scarcely need melody to support them: "Is it an earthquake/ or simply a shock?/ Is it the good turtle soup/ or merely the mock? . . . is it Granada I see/ or only Asbury Park...
...attract the attention of those around you," he advises. Among other things, he instructs his readers on how to move: "Watch your stride. Don't waddle. Walk firmly, erect and with dignity." Style at the dinner table is also important. "Don't crumble your bread into the soup." Molochkov says. "Don't spit bones and so forth onto the plate." Nor should well-mannered diplomats slurp from the tip of their soup spoons, or ask for second helpings...
...Crab Soup. There was something for everyone and every age, from jazz sets to film screenings. To the delight of children, giant puppets strolled the streets. Free sculpture and art shows blossomed at scenic and historic sites around the city. Charleston's restaurants were ready with that minor art form known as low-country cooking: she-crab soup, sauteed shrimp, fried oysters, Limehouse sausage...
Wright's first crisis of conscience came when, as a dishwasher, he noticed a white cook spitting into the soup. To tell or not to tell the boss was the question. In the South, such tattling would have led to his being fired. He pondered his dilemma: "I wondered if a Negro who did not smile and grin was as morally loathsome to whites as a cook who spat into the food." Virtue, in this instance, triumphed...