Word: bento
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Singles by Crowley and Bev Armstrong brought Ellen Cox to the plate with two on and two out. The senior sent a bullet into left field which seemed destined for extra bases. But Maine's Barbara Bento made a terrific over-the-head grab to once again thwart the Harvard offense...
...Frog features an Orientalized Continental menu in a quiet, pastel postmodern setting. Lunch features a Japanese bento, a box with four compartments, containing a choice of such intriguing morsels as grilled shrimp, grilled duck breast, crunchy Japanese-style salads and rice. Among simpler dishes, the swordfish with lemon-thyme butter is flawless...
...Kenji Ekuan, 52, a former Buddhist priest who founded GK Industrial Design Associates, Japan's largest and most innovative design firm, the matter is partly a philosophical one. "We Japanese," he says, "are the most avaricious people. Infinite desires but infinite time and space." To Ekuan the traditional bento-bako - the stacked lunch box packed with its careful array of distinct morsels - is the true ancestor of that emblem of modern Japan, the box full of microchips. Both represent a culture of linear flow: the processing of information, sensuous or electronic, through standardized components that can modulate content rapidly...
...park. Explains an Oriental Land official: "You simply have to give our Japanese patrons a magic sense of being in Orlando or Los Angeles right here." Just two of the park's 27 restaurants sell Japanese food, and they serve only sushi (raw fish with rice) and bento, a sort of Oriental box lunch. Tempura is nowhere to be found, but "spaceburgers" ($1.70), hot dogs and popcorn are everywhere...