Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where Northerners grill, broil and boil, Southerners barbecue and fry and bake. No delicacies are more prized for lunch, breakfast or supper than Southern breads-spoon bread, crackling bread, corn bread, beaten biscuits or any other combination of corn meal and love. Hominy grits, served with eggs at breakfast or within any other meal are a guarantor of beauty, nutrition and happy days, you-all. In all the world there are no desserts more elegant than key lime pie, black bottom pie, pecan pie and fresh Georgia peach ice cream. Or, to wash it down, the pungent coffee...
...from modernity. Veronique also keeps a diary. (You visualize the schema: 11-year-old girls draw horses, 12-year-old girls draw fashion models, 13-year-old girls keep diaries. Everybody knows that. In her family living room we have been spying her, every evening after supper, ostensibly unravelling math problems for school, but in reality, of course, documenting the sordid details of her mother's scary sleep-walking, her father's hunger for inheritance, plus all the humorless nagging and nit-picking French bourgeois coupling. (Not for spite or for blackmail, but she confesses--addressing the camera like...
...hours. The Philadelphia Inquirer front-paged a story on the revelry scene. Its major disclosure: more beer and less Scotch was being offered than in 1972. Dozens of reporters on the liquid late-night beat and even some bona fide guests could not gain entry to a supper sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine because of unexpected crowds of gate crashers. The problem was that veteran Prankster Dick Tuck had printed thousands of counterfeit invitations in Reliable Source, an irreverent daily tabloid that he published during the convention...
...they had quit serving lunch at the Union. It looked like it was going to rain, and the Sox would probably lose again. I took my shoes off, loosened my belt, turned over in bed and set my alarm for 6. Maybe I could make it to supper...
...That was the beginning of our long love affair. He raised me. I was a baby." He was jealous of all her leading men, she says, except Mickey Rooney, and ordered her out of films. But she forgave his defects because of his assets. "He had Last Supper eyes. I would look in his eyes and cry." He taught her to fly, and she liked to tease him by putting the plane into a spin. They were married, says Terry, in 1949 on Hughes' yacht The Hilda, off San Diego. Later, she contends, Hughes reportedly destroyed the record...