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...cooking, not the quality of their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star in the village of Harome, Yorkshire, runs one of the few pubs to have won a coveted Michelin star. Yet his menus are as blunt as the plain-spoken Yorkshireman himself. He serves dishes such as braised oxtail with horseradish sauce and "no pools of this and no puddles of that," Pern says. "Nine out of 10 times fancy descriptions are just trying to cover up ordinary food." The only thing ordinary about Pern...
...percent of the federal budget, is shamefully low, America should pay for subsidized or free medications in developing countries. This would certainly be a valuable investment in our security: decreasing human suffering will improve the prospects for stability and political moderation, and such generosity on our part will blunt the efforts of anti-U.S. demagogues. But, more importantly, it would save lives, and when you’re in a position to do so, that’s the right thing...
...materials in the archives appear to have been written and typed by the members of The Court themselves, not their secretaries. “The handwritten notes look as if someone took scraps of paper, held it on their lap and wrote with a blunt pencil,” Goldstein said. “The letters looked like the Dean himself was typing, not a professional secretary. It was like a person typing who wasn’t used to typing...
...Crimson’s returning veterans and a possible solution for guard mismatches, one of the few question marks for this team is height. Last year, Tar Heels guard Nikki Teasley, who recently won a WNBA title with the Los.Angeles Sparks, stood at 6’0, made the blunt observation that she could see straight over Crimson point guard Jenn Monti...
Sheeler approached his blunt industrial locales in a rapture that could only produce a new Romanticism, the Romance of the Machine Age. In Power Series, Wheels, his 1939 picture of a locomotive wheel assembly, Sheeler wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...