Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Ian Curtis took his own life. New Order became a Doors for the rock sophisticate and Curtis a Jim Morrison figure. But New Order gradually moved to disassociate itself from the death-worship that is the bread and potatoes of second-generation rock fandom and by doing that may have poisoned its career. After a Joy Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black...
Gibson explained that doing something for the hunger of the riders was the prime activity at the church last night, as local high school students and others helped serve home-cooked spaghetti with meat, tossed salad, garlic bread, lemonade, vegetables and dip, and--for dessert--some cookies...
Over the centuries the Japanese have adopted many Chinese words, though the two languages remained entirely separate. Nor was Chinese the only foreign element. Portuguese missionaries later introduced pan (bread), and Dutch traders biiru (beer). Then came the tidal wave of English. Some of these Japanized words filled a practical need (takushi, taxi, or rajio, radio), while some were primarily fashionable (kohi-shoppu, coffee shop...
...words attributed to an apologist for Haile Selassie: "Between you and me-it is not bad for national order and a sense of national humility that the subjects be rendered skinnier, thinned down a bit. . . The usefulness of going hungry is that a hungry man thinks only of bread . . . One should always beware of those who have a bit, because they are the worst, they are the greediest, it is they who push upward...
Raymond Carver's A Small, Good Thing is precisely that: the progress of a couple recovering from the death of their son, rediscovering the savor of life at a bakery: "They swallowed the dark bread. It was like daylight under the fluorescent trays of light . . . and they did not think of leaving." Carver's tale is distinguished not only for its deceptively simple, ultimately haunting style, but for its history. The original version was published in a collection of stories two years ago. Carver might have let it languish there; instead he chose to rework the material, enriching...