Word: bowness
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...recent years. Now, thanks in part to a diligent advertising campaign ("beef: real food for real people") and undoubtedly to the natural longing for this most American of meats, sales are increasing in many parts of the country, in some areas as much as 20%. But many butchers bow to the times and trim all visible gristle...
...velvet--purse, bow and shoes, Accessories a-plenty in rich reds or blues...
...prominent artists from Sendak to Nicola Bayley have given stature to such street doggerel as "Once there was a little boy,/ He lived in his skin;/ When he pops out,/ You may pop in" and George Bernard Shaw's effort for the young, presented at age 93: "Dumpitydoodledum big bow wow/ Dumpitydoodledum dandy!" Not exactly Dr. Seuss, but, as young people know, many a satisfying afternoon can be spent with leftovers...
Primary and secondary colors go first class in Who Said Red? (McElderry Books; $12.95). Mary Serfozo's lively text quotes a sister teasing her kid brother: "Now who said blue? Could it be you? A blue sky blue, a blue eye blue, a bow, a ball, a blue jean blue?" Or perhaps he wants "slicker yellow, sunshine yellow, lemonade and daisy yellow." But no; despite the additional temptations of purple, brown, pink and orange, the boy hews to one hue: "A cherry, berry, very red." And who can blame him? Keiko Narahashi shows a rainbow of appealing items...
...that Washington's democratic experiment has failed. At best, the U.S. has leased a democracy in El Salvador that will struggle on only as long as Washington continues to pay the rent and Salvadoran officials agree to play along. (ARENA has already asserted that it does not intend to bow to U.S. demands even if it means a drastic reduction of aid.) The U.S. did Duarte no favor by emphasizing the fight against Communist guerrillas instead of reinforcing his agenda for reconciliation, economic growth and social reform. Washington also held Duarte -- and others in Central America -- to the pluralistic standards...