Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blur before his desk are a dossier of sins he has committed, or, in the case of a homosexual, of a deviate impulse he may have suppressed. It is not surprising that his self-disgust and self-hatred prove contagious, and hat in the end everyone leaves him to stew in his own bile...
Since then, she has withdrawn to her home in Lausanne, submerged herself in her two favorite occupations, eating and working. A gourmet with exotic tastes, Capucine has been known to consume anything that has flavor. She has eaten chicken-entrail stew in Cambodia, honey bats in Mauritius, and sheep eyes in North Africa. Despite her exotic intake, she remains a model of gauntness. "I only gain weight when I am terribly depressed," she maintains. Apparently, there is nothing depressing Capucine at present, except the gnawing feeling that the pussycat may be keeping so cool that as a comedienne...
...happy. Vermont housewives with refrigerators full of thawing food calmly transferred everything to a more capacious freezer?the backyard. In the fireplaces of $40,000 suburban homes, paunchy businessmen crouched to kindle damp charcoal and concoct Boy Scout mulligan stew...
...flesh as small jungle deer, a local delicacy ("For the luxury trade," he chortles, "brass only-majors and up!"). The film's most blistering episode concerns an anguished soldier's pet dog, condemned to death for killing a chicken. Later, the King invites his cronies to a stew dinner, prods the disgusted men into gulping down their consciences along with...
That afternoon, an anti-Castro Havana lawyer put it somewhat differently: "I think the U.S. is letting us stew in our own juice for a while...