Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sergeant Mitterrand was shot in the chest, then captured by the Germans near Verdun. He felt his imprisonment in a Nazi P.O.W. camp was his "first real encounter with other men." He recalls: "At noon the Germans distributed tureens of rutabaga soup and loaves of bread. At first, it was the survival of the fittest-government by the knife. The first men to get hold of the soup or the bread served themselves, passing on no more than a few drops of dirty water to the others." After three months, however, camp leaders emerged to "cut the black bread into...
...agreement came only after some last-minute shuttle diplomacy across the Pacific. Japanese automakers were firmly opposed to any export reductions, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was having little luck bringing them into line. But after a Tokyo dinner of shredded sea eel soup and fried abalone, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock and Minister of Trade Rokusuke Tanaka began moving toward an agreement...
Andy Warhol, pop artist, on his creative aspirations: "If I had my way, I'd paint Campbell soup cans every day. It's just so easy, and you don't have to think. It's just too hard to think...
...help get secretions out of his lungs. Though breathing hurt, he required little pain medication. He continued to receive oxygen through a nose catheter. White House aides visit ing that morning found Reagan sitting up and brushing his teeth. He spent the day sleeping and reading newspapers; meals were soup and gelatin. The next day he switched to solid foods and walked a few steps. Toward the end of the week he was walking down the hospital corridor, and doctors were predicting that barring complications he might return to the White House this week and be able to resume...
Their work, after all, was precisely what the founders of modern art - Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Matisse " - had set themselves against: | pompier realism, with its gleaners, nuns and goosegirls, its moralizing illusionism, heavy sentiment and lentil-soup colors. It was "photo graphic" - a single word, damnation enough. But in 1 98 1 taste in such matters has not merely shifted, it has come full circle. The exhibition now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900," would not even have been attempted by an American museum 15 years ago; the subject...