Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waldheim had planned a small dinner that evening at his Sutton Place town house to celebrate what he thought would be the successful culmination of his diplomatic efforts. The guests arrived on time, but the Secretary-General did not appear until 10, sipped a cup of soup, then retired to his study to phone Washington and Tehran. Through most of the night, he tried to arrange a compromise...
Sunshine might just as well try tunneling out of Sing Sing with a soup spoon. Every avenue of Waters' psyche ends up against a wall, a towering edifice whose bricks have been mixed from the clay of emotional trauma, vocational frustration and, apparently, brain damage. Absent fathers, smothering mothers, sadistic schoolmasters, insistent fans and faithless spouses: "All in all you were all just bricks in the wall...
...studied economics at the University of Chicago before going into Government service. In a vertical-takeoff career, he became by 1943 at age 23 director-general of finance for Allied-occupied southwest Iran, which included that country's strategic oilfields. In the 1950s he launched a powdered soup company in Mexico. After becoming a multimillionaire by selling his firm to General Foods, he began teaching a course in Latin American entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School. Solomon joined the Kennedy Administration as an economic troubleshooter in 1963 and rose to Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs under President...
...occupied by the Vatican's Ambassador to Britain, Swiss-born Archbishop Bruno Heim, 68. The supplicant chef frequently turns out to be Heim himself, who likes to slip an apron over his cassock to whip up sauces or stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing a breach opened with the Roman church by Henry VIII; his credentials...
...them on to endless emotional ostentations, as if, as Saul Bellow once wrote, "to keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." A man sits down at a New Jersey dinner party, beside a woman he met half an hour before, and hears in elaborately explicit detail from soup through coffee, how the woman and her husband managed to conquer their sexual incompatibility with the help of a sex therapist. A magazine writer not long ago met the new young husband of Novelist Erica Jong at a party and realized with a disagreeable little jolt that she knew from Jong...