Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Julia Child ought to stew TIME and Artist Boris Chaliapin. Her likeness resembles the First Apparition in Shakespeare's Macbeth. And everyone knows what a beastly recipe the Weird Sisters used to concoct that aberration...
Artist Boris Chaliapin went to Cambridge to paint the cover portrait, and according to Julia it was the "beginning of a life friendship." After a sitting Boris would trade paintbrushes for Julia's pots and pans, and concoct some of his favorite Russian recipes: shashlik and a peasant soup made with chicken giblets, dill pickles and brine...
Last summer's macabre mass murders in Chicago and Austin seemed irresistibly fascinating to Robert Benjamin Smith, 18, studious, reticent high school senior in Mesa, Ariz. (pop. 50,000). Three months ago, Bob Smith began to concoct his own nightmarish schemes for multiple murder. After toying with several other likely sites, he settled on the Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a mile and a half from his home, because of the number of potential victims-student beauticians and housewife customers-to be found there...
...discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
...crooks concoct an elaborate hoax about being cops, and there is much hokum with rattling of Venetian blinds, fake phone calls, unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...