Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precision of edge and line is replaced by a fuzzy, affable kind of formal system-nursery-toy versions, almost, of the sphere, cube and cylinder, those intimidating Platonic solids of programmatic modernism. His pigment, however, has an extraordinary range of effect. His work sports in the transparency, density and sweet pastiness that only oil paint can give. Surfeited by color, twinkling with fields of dots (like enlarged details of a Seurat, betokening light), its casual surface can look clumsy; but that is only Hodgkin playing with the idea of clumsiness, extracting an educated pleasure from the babyish joys of daubing...
...mellow music stations. More power to it. Only a sorehead would fuss about too much celebration of the idea of home during the festive winter season. For that matter, home deserves a good deal of hymning all the time. There is, as the wonderful old song Home, Sweet Home established once and for all, no place like it-and this no matter what sort of place home turns out to be. What also needs to be remembered is that home, although a special place, is never merely a place...
Without a doubt, the main event of the weekend will be Thanksgiving dinner, served at Adams House from noon until 2 p.m. "Lordy, are we going to have a dinner," said DuFour. The menu will include pecan-stuffed turkey, sugar-cured ham with sweet potatoes and three different kinds...
...lemon sauce. A savory pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma and one lavish sweet, Sicilian cassata: lemon cake lopped with a heady mixture of rum, chocolate and ricotta. The baking of this elaborately decorated cassata is so distracting a labor that in 1575 the Roman Catholic Church forbade nuns to make it during Holy Week...
...former President, visibly moved, ambled towards a piano and played "I Got It Bad and that Ain't Good." "They don't treat me sweet and gentle, the way they should have, I got it bad and that ain't good." he warbled. Finishing his rendition of the Billie Holiday classic. Nixon addressed the gathering...