Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only belatedly have museums realized that the history of modern art would seem vacuously cold without Chagall's tender, sometimes desperate exhortation to love life joyfully. "It's absolutely essential to have him," says Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard Brown. Adds a London dealer: "The one painter sought by all museums is Chagall. He has already become an old master...
...humor is set by Negro Author Chester Himes in a laboriously arch preface that explains that "pinktoes is a term of indulgent affection applied to white women by Negro men, and sometimes conversely by Negro women to white men, but never adversely by either." Sample line: "Her moments of tender intimacy with a big fine white man, if all were put together, would make a fine Swiss watch...
...language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...
...something -- that they can't run away from themselves. But don't worry! Etc. isn't grim. The play's main excuse for entertainment (it is supposed to be funny) is the debunking of Tom and Teena by Razz and Pinky (orphan Tom's fairy guardian) and then the tender undercutting of Pinky and Mrs. Bigelow (Teena's Greenwich-bred mother...
...could lay hands on those tender tresses...