Word: amish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fated titular hero, Mick Jagger, the rock singer, with a beard that makes him appear more Amish than Australian, is, sadly, simply a dour renegade who rarely becomes the 'wild colonial boy' of the legend...
THERE ARE 20 SHOPPING days left before Christmas. And you know what? I'm not worried at all. My shopping for Chanukah presents is done. I had to brave "Black Friday" at my local mall--the only mall in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. My mom and I blocked in an Amish buggy in the parking lot. When we got back to our car, the tires were all slashed...
...that you see a shiatsu person he knows on the other side of town. The shiatsu masseuse will encourage you to buy certain herbs. Before you know it, you've suspended disbelief and are having your foot rubbed by a reflexologist -- a practitioner of a therapy, popular among the Amish, that maintains that your body's control panels are your feet. (The liver's special rheostat is in the middle of the right foot; the gallbladder's is nearby...
...AMISH: THE ART OF THE QUILT by Robert Hughes (Knopf/Callaway; $100). These spare yet sumptuous squares reflect the cardinal virtues of their Amish makers: simplicity and practicality. Made between 1870 and 1950 in Lancaster County, Pa., they foreshadowed the geometric art of the '60s and the minimalism that followed. And unlike those paintings, they also keep you warm at night...
...Pennsylvania Dutch food, which is actually a kind of Americanized German cuisine I remember from childhood as featuring at least three starches with every overcooked piece of meat. But in Cooking from Quilt Country by Marcia Adams (Potter; $24.95), this excessively hearty cuisine gets lightened up. The recipes from Amish and Mennonite families in Indiana are less daunting to the cholesterol conscious. But how can there be an Amish cookbook without shoofly pie, that gooey + concoction of molasses and brown sugar? And I still have never found a good recipe for the peach tart that Grandma Fultz used to make...