Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie critics pick their dog or skunk of the week. Repertory cinemas devote seasons to World's Worst Movie festivals, based on a hot-selling book called The Golden Turkey Awards...
Saks Fifth Avenue has kindly consented to provide the beluga caviar (4 oz. for $88). Pepperidge Farm has prepared Father's favorite hot Bing Cherry Soup with Burgundy (in a selection of eight cans for $18.95). Hampton Farms has, especially for us, smoked a 9-lb. young torn turkey over hickory embers (only $29.95). English plum pudding ($12) is on its way from Altman's. The wines, all from good old Sherry-Lehmann 's catalogue, will go from Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut (about $20) with the caviar, to Chateau d'Yquern ($90) with...
...young, as always, use slang as an instrument to define status, to wave to peers and even to discipline reality. A real jerk may be a nerkey, a combination of nerd and turkey. Is something gnarly? That may be good or bad. But if it is mega-gnarly, that is excellent. One may leave a sorority house at U.C.L.A. to mow a burger. Slang has less ideological content now than it had in the '60s. Still, it sometimes arises, like humor, from apprehension. High school students say, "That English test really nuked me." On the other hand, in black...
Yilmaz Güney is a national movie idol, a world-class moviemaker and a convicted murderer. There are many, in Turkey and in the international film community, who believe that these three eminences are related. Güney is a firebrand of his country's intellectual left. His films-slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous-smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion. For these heresies and others, Güney has spent half of his adult life in prison. In 1974, while filming a scene in a crowded restaurant in Adana...
Earlier this year, Wilkins conducted a week-long cold-turkey cure with elementary-school pupils in Ridgewood, NJ. Her accounts of the week of abstinence often sound like the minimelodramas at a fat farm. Some families balked; some began and gave up; several starving mothers furtively watched General Hospital; one frustrated father resorted to taping Rangers' hockey games. In general, parents seemed to suffer the pangs of withdrawal more acutely than their children...