Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does. Austin's larcenous achievement serves as the vehicle for a favorite Shepard effect: the symbolic over-abundance of food-stuffs. In Buried Child vegetables from the backyard garden were heaped on the stage in Rubens-esque quantities. True West serves up toast made in the five toasters Austin steals. These masses of toast represent Austin's hostile offering of his own success in his brother's line of work...
John Bottoms and Francois de la Giroday deliver arresting, finely tuned performances. De la Giroday's sardonic antics with the mounds of toast his drunken, bitter humor, and his ability to shift gears--to portray both a self-possessed success and a collapsed failure--are outstanding. Bottoms' stooped, hulking gait and his combination of down-dirty badness and querulous insecurity breathe life into a difficult and confusing character. He recalls Henry Fonda at his most cranky in On Golden Pond in his ornery refusal to admit that he is pleased by something done for him, his obstinate pessimism, his scorn...
...George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894), set in the bohemian Latin Quarter of Paris, the sinister Svengali hypnotizes a tone-deaf gamine named Trilby and transforms her into an exquisite diva who becomes the toast of all Europe. When Svengali dies, so does Trilby's voice. In a two-hour, made-for-television movie titled Svengali, Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone), 19, plays a rock 'n' roll Trilby smoothed into a Streisand by Peter OToole's latter-day Svengali. Foster is on leave this semester from Yale, where she is a sophomore majoring...
...official dinner at the White House was given for visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 53, and his wife Suzie, but the principal topic of discussion was china. "President Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, dear friends," said the Egyptian leader, rising to propose a toast. "Before I start, I would like to first congratulate Mrs. Reagan for the new china, which is very elegant and very beautiful." Mubarak, in his diplomatic way, was referring of course to Nancy Reagan's celebrated $209,508, 220-place, 4,372-piece set of Lenox china, paid for last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation...
...When he met Frieda Lawrence's granddaughter, he instantly fell in love. Then reality began to edit illusion. When the first words his new wife spoke to him on their wedding morning were "You didn't cut off the crusts" (he had forgotten to trim the connubial toast), Alvarez thought: "It's the wrong script." Frantically, he turned page after page. Didn't Lawrence write that Grand Passion was part of the Great Tradition? Wasn't marriage a heroic endeavor? When, four years later, his marriage foundered, the writer felt that he had failed...