Word: soups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turns out, she also deserves only a jot less credit than Quayle for making the production work. A confection that could easily have dissolved into a soup of mawkish sentiment gets souffleed into an amusing and often touching entertainment. Director Edwin Sherin had the good sense to keep the sets minimal...
Soon after canal negotiators reached agreement last week, Panama's strongman, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, lunched at his Pacific Coast hideaway known as Farallon (meaning "small rocky island in the sea ") with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. Following a meal of sancocho (Panama's national soup) and hot chili sauce, Torrijos offered the following comments...
...total space devoted to editorial matter has actually increased slightly since the switch from eight narrow columns a page to six wide ones. Says Executive Editor A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal: "Other papers have added water to the soup, but we've added vegetables...
...China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined. The matriarch rarely interferes in Arthur's affairs. "Sons either have an Oedipus complex about their mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what I think." She did protest a story about sex at Barnard College, her alma mater. "It was an unfortunate piece of publicity," she sighs. "I guess people get lots of sex nowadays, but they lose the romance...
...Porter's life, he has forgotten too much of the fun. His book truly comes to life only when he quotes his subject's lyrics. The difference between stolid narration and bright rhymes is the difference, in Cole Porter's words, between the good turtle soup and merely the mock-or for that matter, night...