Word: spaghetti
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...after Mora, 41, a Miami policeman convalescing in Puerto Rico from a mugger's bullet that chipped his hipbone. The wound initially looked worse than it was, because the second shot shattered a half-gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy that Mora was carrying, along with a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a bottle of prune juice. The items suggest that the lieutenant is no oenophile, dislikes cooking and suffers from constipation. More important, a grocery list is Leonard's shorthand way of establishing his hero's endearing authenticity as a middle-aged widower who, despite badge and gun, falls...
...Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory spaghetti joint summons up the sensible suggestion, "You'd think those guys'd learn to eat some other kind of food...
...Unlike a spaghetti western, The Sicilian has no one-on-one shootout under a hot sun. Instead, Don Croce and Guiliano are locked in an elaborate melodrama of betrayals within betrayals. Puzo too demonstrates sly moves. His florid descriptions and graphic action scenes guarantee bug-eyed attention while he plants a sardonic fatalism in the heart of his book. One of the rarest commodities in his Sicily is truth ("A source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus...
...month ago, my husband took to reciting table manners from the 1963 edition of Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette. Our two young sons howl with laughter when they hear how to eat bacon, chicken or spaghetti. Who knows, it just might sink...
...saying that it's my fault." (Applause.) "I'll take the blame for inflation falling by almost two-thirds." (Applause.) "And it's our fault that the prime interest rate fell from 21.5%." (Applause.) "... that we cut taxes for every American." (Applause.) Hoboken, New Jersey. A spaghetti dinner at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church. "Why do those who claim to represent the party of compassion feel no compassion whatsoever for the most helpless among us-the unborn." (Applause.) The punchy rhetoric, the actor's timing, the roar of the crowd, all could mean only...