Word: borsch
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Startled Stares. As might be expected, the quality of the art was less an issue than the unique opportunity to show it. Some canvases were quite obviously done by laissez-faire Sunday amateurs, while others displayed a disciplined professionalism. A borsch equivalent of Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup can drew the kind of startled stares that pop art has been receiving in the West for more than a decade. Although organizers had promised that there would be no overtly anti-Soviet or religious art, there was one surrealist still life boldly titled Homage to Pasternak, and another...
...currencies and Western jazz records on the famous black market there in a vain effort to relieve the pervading drabness. The thought that the secret police may be crashing round the edges of an East-meets-West romance adds the faintest imaginable flavor of suspense to this bowl of borsch. Actually, the only thing to be said for the locale is that when the Russians find people behaving as tiresomely as Miss Hawn, they haul them into court, charge them with parasitism, and sentence them to stiff terms in Siberia. Americans probably ought to have some similar punishment for people...
...master; and each one plunked down $25 for the right to trade gambits with Boris Spassky, the former world champion. The simultaneous matches quickly turned into a boisterous chess happening. Six-year-old Robert le Donne bounced in toting his schoolbag; another player brought along a sustaining bottle of borsch; a third steadfastly refused repeated offers of $50 to relinquish his board. Spectators standing on chairs and stepladders strained for a better view of the action...
Especially, no doubt, with dancing bears and a borsch...
...Trudeau's re-election bid next month. President Harold Ballard of the Toronto Maple Leafs termed it "a national disaster." Dick Beddoes of the Toronto Globe and Mail, who had boastfully predicted a clean Canadian sweep, ate his column-after coating the newsprint with a thick layer of borsch...