Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snake dishes do not come cheap. A bowl of ordinary snake soup costs from $20 to $160, depending on the type of reptile used, and advocates of reptile recipes say that one must consume at least a bowl a day for ten days to obtain any discernible lift of the libido. Vipers, which are especially recommended for people suffering from neuralgia and tuberculosis, cost $140 each. The yellow python, valued as an all-purpose tonic, costs $200, while the most precious serpent of all, the paik-sa, or albino snake, celebrated for assuring longevity, has been known to bring from...
...Dustin Hoffman−a very odd couple indeed. Redgrave simply has no peer when it comes to playing women rendered both vulnerable and awkward by the intensity of emotions that cannot be fully expressed. She is lovely and touching. Hoffman's character is based on a vanished type, the journalistic dandy of the Richard Harding Davis variety. He's a man who travels with a dozen suitcases full of bespoke clothing, knows his way around menus and room clerks, has the air of a self-made man who is pleased with the job he did on himself. Also...
...Jane can follow, of why it is possible (but not practical) to reverse the basic nuclear reaction and convert energy into matter; some witty Asimovian annotations on Shakespeare, the Bible and the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Byron; as lagniappe, he throws in a few limericks of the type An ability to dramatize. that family magazines do not reprint...
...dining room condiment table, it probably seems that way. If you want to be dazzled, go see Godspell with its original cast. If you want to be moved, go see Dick Burton or Larry Olivier. But if you want to have a relaxing evening of shaving cream fight-type fun, go see a Pudding show, any Pudding show. It will set you back as much as a box seat at Fenway for a Red Sox game...
...Jerry Velona, there are two to see you," the receptionist said, dressed in a polyester suit. He was sitting behind a bulbous steel microphone, the type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...