Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muscle-bound beachcombers. Now Venice is coping with an unwanted new reputation: as a sunny campground for 2,000 homeless people. A tent city on the beach has spurred fears that Venice will become an oceanside skid row. A neighborhood group has been organized to protest a planned soup kitchen and shelter in the Rose Avenue residential area; some claim that an increase in petty crime is driving away both tourists and businesses...
...movie about a cop and his you-know-what partner), The Dog Who Cried Wolf (a film comedy about, yes, a talking dog), The Adventures of Milo and Otis (a Japanese import about a canine and his cat friend) and Cold Dog Soup (a black comedy about a dead...
...pages; $17.95). This culinary memoir is built around the foods of the author's North Carolina childhood, but it also encompasses recipes that Hovis developed in a career as a New York City food stylist and caterer -- chicken breasts in orange-cognac sauce, or a watercress, cucumber and avocado soup...
...family favorites that reflect the regional backgrounds of Presidents from Lyndon Johnson (who favored Texas-style chili con carne, lamb hash and deer sausage), through Gerald Ford (lusty, German-influenced fare like sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage, apple pancakes and a revolting curried tuna casserole), to Ronald Reagan (hamburger soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal-shank dish called osso buco). Haller presents some macabre juxtapositions of historic events with personal reminiscences. To get through his difficult final hours in the White House, Richard Nixon requested a breakfast more substantial than his usual wheat germ...
...past year, Sherman has begun to lessen her presence in her work. Her new subject is food. One piece, which she privately calls "Bulimia at the Beach," depicts a repulsive mixture of vegetable soup and crushed cupcakes. Sherman appears only in a reflection in the mirrored sunglasses on the sand. In her most recent photographs, Sherman is completely absent from the tableau. She has surrendered her "canvas" entirely to a mixture of hotdogs and wind-up toys in one, and a mask full of decayed dog food in another...