Word: spaghetti
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...years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy baritone and eclectic repertoire of folk, rock and mellow protest songs. He soon had a huge following...
...mass of the deceased star. Typically, this frontier is an imaginary sphere tens of kilometers across that defines the size of the black hole. It is the point of no return that scientists call the black hole's "event horizon." Anything crossing this border would be stretched spaghetti-thin, pulverized by gravitational tidal forces, and sucked into the singularity. To an observer outside?say an astronaut watching his abandoned craft plunge into the black hole?the result would be different. Because of relativistic effects, the spacecraft would appear to move ever more slowly, and closer and closer to the event...
...Europe but the burden always finds its way back home. "My wife tries to feed me salads and my kids wrestle me from the refrigerator door," he says. But in the middle of the night, insomniac Puzo frequently drifts down to the kitchen and prepares his favorite snack: spaghetti smothered in butter sauce...
...idea was as obvious as the mess created by a six-year-old tackling a bowl of spaghetti. If Holiday Inns sanitized and made respectable the once tacky motel, and McDonald's gave the nation hamburgers without heartburn, why couldn't the same techniques of standardization and mass marketing be applied to day-care centers for children...
...week, an Italian viewer could tune into the following shows: instruction in sexual positions by a scantily clad young couple; lessons in chess, French or English; a battery of commentators ruminating about the kidnaping of ex-Premier Aldo Moro; an education program to help children with their homework; a spaghetti western; a porno feature called The Masseuses; and a phone-in quiz starring a housewife-masked to protect her identity-who peeled off an item of clothing every time a caller got the answer right. For the truly hard-to-please, there were also sports and political programs, and films...