Word: toasts
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DIED. MARY CAPERTON BINGHAM, 90, philanthropist; in Louisville, Kentucky. Moments after acknowledging a Rotary dinner toast by saying, "The best thing would be for a big pink cloud to come down and take me away," Bingham collapsed from a heart attack. She was the widow of media baron Barry Bingham; his death in 1988 was preceded by a family-rending money spat among their children...
...best part about this movie are the wonderful dynamics between the three "tall tale" heroes. They from a triumvirate whose role alters in the context of each scene. They are the guardians of the land, and of a dying way of life. In a bar, a simple toast with mugs of beer becomes a mystic ritual, the personifications of the West (Pecos Bill), the South (John Henry) and the North (Paul Bunyan) saluting each other solemnly. They are also role models and surrogate fathers to Daniel. The heroes teach him to be self-sufficient, but in the end they...
Listening to this timeless music, you can almost believe that a song could save the world. It's tempting to offer each Chieftain the toast from Mo Ghile Mear--"So wish him strength and length of days"--but these old boyos already have both...
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After a late night of wooing New Hampshire Republicans, Senator Richard Lugar is up early at the Manchester Holiday Inn for a sensible breakfast of All-Bran and whole-wheat toast. It is part of an unvarying routine that includes yogurt and two apples for lunch daily and meticulous markings on a chart tracking his morning run. Such a creature of habit is now doing the most insensible thing by jumping into the G.O.P. presidential primaries in a way the political oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test...