Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish most: peace, bread and freedom," he says. "And freedom cannot come without the first...
American-style croissants are more than just a fancy-sounding name for bread and butter. In addition to the traditional, or plain, variety, which usually sells for about 800, devotees can buy $2.50-plus croissants stuffed with everything from fruit preserves to ham, cheese and even beef bourguignon. "I was just looking for a cup of coffee and a doughnut, but I ended up with coffee and an apple croissant," said Stephen Fudge, a Canadian tourist in San Francisco. Added his enthusiastic companion, Susan Wood: "I'd take a chocolate croissant over a Big Mac any time...
...novel's slow-burning narrator, has suffered racial prejudice, the sweetened indignities of tokenism and the usual wear and tear of encroaching middle age. He is a writer whose resume has a familiar ring: World War II combat veteran, college on the G.I. Bill, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Bread Loaf and finally a niche in a university English department. (Williams himself is a professor of English at Rutgers University...
...sidewalks along the city's larger streets are lined with small roadside enterprises. Vendors display fruits, vegetables, small paperback booklets and trinkets. Old women and men sell popsicles and tea to pedestrians. Three young women stand in an outdoor restaurant, preparing fried bread and dumplings. The restaurant, like all other privately owned enterprises is relatively new: it has not been long since the Chinese government prohibited all private businesses. Now, however, private enterprises are encouraged. These small businesses are viewed as a source of employment for the millions of Chinese who are unemployed while waiting for the government to "distribute...
...places he painted without seeing them at all. The Dutch market, in the late 1650s, had a vogue for Scandinavian waterfalls; Ruisdael obligingly painted about a hundred of them, undeterred by the fact that he had never been north of Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved images of Dutch landscape-a wide, flat horizon, punctuated by a church tower, overwhelmed by blowing clouds and permeated by Ruisdael's mild northern light. They repeat themselves, but a man has a right to his own cliches...