Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homes, and chief executives of FORTUNE 500 companies began insisting that underlings make better use of the plethora of machines they had already purchased. "They bought too much and ended up with indigestion," explains Esther Dyson, an industry consultant. "Now they've digested lunch and are getting ready for supper...
...transfer students who arrive here each year? It's true that we take classes with other undergraduates, that we can eat meals in the residential dining halls with other students, that we have as much access to University facilities as others. But while walking a few blocks to supper is not so bad, knowing no one in the dining hall is no fun at all. Although most sophomores spend their time meeting new housemates, transfer students usually become friendly primarily with fellow transfers. It takes longer, perhaps only after becoming involved in an extracurricular activity, for transfer students to have...
...warmest shops on earth. Winifred used to do this when her husband was alive, but she does it even more now: if you are around about sundown, and you and your mates are interesting, bookish but not stodgy, you stand a good chance of being stood to supper. The beef is from her own Charolais, the vegetables from the hothouse. The music might be an old somebody-done-somebody-wrong cowboy song. Also, the same trick works at noonday if you catch her with one or two spare biscuits in the pan. "I don't mind feeding the customers," Winifred...
...cause I was ((exploding into a shout)) married for two f years! Hell would be like Club Med!" A stint at the piano for a song to his ex-girlfriend turns into a string of obscenities ending with "I want my records back!" His blasphemous accounts of the Last Supper and the Resurrection are startling reminders that even in the post-Lenny Bruce age, comedians still have the power to offend...
...Academy had particularly restricted thesubject matter and technique of historicalpaintings, forcing painters to depict solelyclassical and mythological subjects in anidealized style. The works of the 1860's,therefore, are strikingly novel in comparison.Nikolai Ge's "The Last Supper" (1866) reflectsthis change--the traditional scene is interpretedwith a remarkable new emphasis on thepsychological states of the figures, and Christ isportrayed with originality and expression...