Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conviction that this was a momentous and great occasion. He ended by toasting the normalization and friendship between the two countries and the health of America's leaders and his guests, at which point people clapped, drank and talked. The murmuring ceased as Vice President Mondale began to speak...
...Stability in language is synonymous with rigormortis." In 1978, American prose continued to alter, irritate and entertain. To the purist, those characteristics may be evidence of deterioration. Certainly our language has been besieged by vulgarities. But it has also been enriched by vigorous phrases and terms. To those who speak and write with care, those words are the unmistakable beats of life...
Poet Allen Ginsberg, a close friend of both Kerouac's and the Cassadys', so objected to the way he was portrayed in the screenplay of Heart Beat that he demanded he be dropped entirely. "They wanted to have someone named Allen Ginsberg speak lines I never said," he says. "I wouldn't have minded if they put something intelligent in my mouth, but it sounded like third-rate beatnik poetry." Adds Novelist Ken Kesey, another friend of the trio: "I believe in dead rights, that no one has a right to mess with a guy, use Humphrey...
...Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, Wife Irene wept in bed after she had been raped by her husband. The next morning, Husband Soames ate breakfast comforted by the thought that "no one would know-it was not the sort of thing that she would speak about." Besides he had but prevented his wife "from abandoning her duty...
Good meals, ça va sans dire, should not be corseted by classic formulas or restricted to scarce foodstuff. This is what nouvelle cuisine is all about: less emphasis on heavy, masking sauces, greater reliance on the fresh flesh, fish, fowl and vegetables that can be encouraged to speak for themselves. Jean and Pierre Troisgros most elegantly practice the new cookery at their three-star restaurant in the Rhone Valley. In The Nouvelle Cuisine (Morrow; 254 pages; $12.95), the chers frères range easily from red mullet with beef marrow to that little-known marvel, coupe-jarret, which consists...