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Chewing on a chitterling, even after it has been carefully cleaned and cooked, is rather like chewing on a football bladder. So soul-food restaurants that cater to whites rarely carry chitlins on their menus, instead stick to more conventional dishes, such as shrimp gumbo, "smothered" pork chops and ham hocks. Even those have little appeal to a gourmet palate. Soul food is often fatty, overcooked and underseasoned. Vegetables are boiled with fatback for so long that their taste and nutritional value go up in steam; meats have to be sprinkled liberally with salt and pepper to give the eater...
...inches taller. In this case, however, Joy "hastened to veto any tendency toward such competition," as he wrote in his book, How Communists Negotiate, "thereby perhaps averting construction of the two tallest flagpoles on earth." The meetings have now turned into what one participant calls "the battle of the bladder." They often run for eight hours, and if any of the senior members leaves the table before the ses sion is formally closed, the other side interprets it as a deliberate walkout. The talks are also spiced with undiplomatic language. When U.S. Army Major General Richard Ciccolella was the senior...
...Gall-bladder disease is becoming more common as the proportion of oldsters in the population increases. The usual form is cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder), resulting from the formation of stones in the gall bladder. Sometimes, the stones immediately signal their presence by causing sharp pain. In such cases, surgery is performed promptly. But many gallstones lie dormant for years-and it is this "silent" type that sent the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Martin A. Adson into debate with fellow surgeons...
...against future peril, and after examining thousands of recorded cases, Adson rather cautiously concluded that prophylactic surgery is sometimes justified. One case in point: a patient under 65 who has coronary artery disease; the risks become far greater, said Adson, if such a patient has to have emergency gall-bladder surgery later in life...
...pocked with stars," sighs Henry. "Has my willow turned to poison oak?" he inquires of his mistress. At other times, Goldman is an anachronistic historian. "It's 1183, and we're all barbarians," announces the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Often Goldman is simply a pig-bladder comedian. After Eleanor announces to Henry that she has slept with his father, the King stumbles angrily from her bedroom. "Well," shrugs Eleanor to the camera, "what family doesn't have its ups and downs...