Word: stewing
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...with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament. You are missing the point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility: "It's coffee in the pot and a dirty sugar spoon/ it's towels on the floor of a dirty bathroom/ and a smell like me and a smell like you/ all mixed together...
...Pakistani government. If Cry Freedom finds easy outrage nestling with the victims of state torture, Sammy & Rosie is prepared at least to make the deathbed that a genial torturer can lie in. But Rafi gets no more or less sympathy than any other character in this exuberant egalitarian stew of a movie. Once the empire has died, taking with it the old notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive is up for grabs. And what do we find in an empire's night ashes? Punks and ghosts...
...problem: noisy upstairs neighbors. At first he would just stew, drink some beer and angrily throw chairs across his apartment living room. Then the burly, 26-year-old karate enthusiast bought an M-16 rifle and vowed "to fire a few rounds into the ceiling." Fortunately his father got wind of the scheme and put Tom (not his real name) in a psychiatric hospital. There, doctors learned that alcohol triggered his violent episodes. Tom is schizophrenic, and a single beer is enough to send him over the edge...
...filled ravioli with chanterelles and hazelnuts and a ragout of wild mushrooms. Among main courses, moist, roasted pheasant with a subtle gamy flavor was well set off with pungent cranberries, and a mustard glaze added zest to sliced, rare roast filet of beef. Near misses were a too soupy stew of wild duck, the sweetbreads that tasted of overheated oil and both the gratin of salt codfish with a Parmesan cheese and soft-shell crabs that were impeccably prepared but stingingly salty...
...protege and best beau. Then a funny thing happened: Ken may have wanted to live like Wilde, but Joe learned to write like him. And believing that "anything worth doing is worth doing in public," Joe shared his sexuality with all comers, while Ken was left at home to stew in his rancor. He was the "first wife," the spurned mother, and bound to take revenge...