Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long johns from Maine's L.L. Bean, plus a chain saw so that the boys could provide wood for a warming fireplace to keep the Arabs at bay. The greatest yields from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue were in home improvement lines (tools, paints, fixtures), home furnishings (bedspreads were big) and save-work appliances like a microwave oven...
...standing rib roast and macédoine of fruits in champagne with bourbon-soaked chocolate truffles. Anyone who serves anyone such a repast must have a very good boss or richly deserve a raise. Julia also has suggestions for such events as a birthday dinner ("roast duck and a big gooey cake"), a Sunday night supper, a chafing-dish dinner and a buffet for 19, with good ideas about the wines avec. The book goes on to breads and breakfasts, capons and caramel, sherbets and shellfish. Julia, please stop...
...Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came up with rock...
...Democrats insisted that Gore's willingness to bite the hand that writes the big checks proves his independence. But Republicans called that line a hypocritical stretch for "Hollywood's candidate." The conservative group American Renewal sniffed, "World-class chutzpah...
...Social Security's basic guarantees must not change, says Gore. So he proposes pouring more revenue into the program in order to fund the retirement of the baby boomers without having to raise payroll taxes or cut benefits. Since the Social Security system cannot keep big cash reserves of its own, Gore relies on a two-step process: He uses $3.5 trillion of the projected surpluses over the next 12 years to pay down the entire national debt; then he takes the resulting savings in interest payments (which by 2015 will amount to more than $220 billion a year...