Word: breads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th century Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to America and thought he had the young nation figured out. But Tocqueville never tried out for a porno film. In this documentary series, English-raised Louis Theroux (son of novelist Paul) samples the strangest fruits of freedom, from pitching infomercials to breaking bread with right-wing survivalists. This sort of participational filmmaking can become cute or self-satisfied, but Theroux maintains a curious, never smug attitude, even toward the most bizarre colonists...
Pizzeria Uno, Bertucci's, Au Bon Pain and the Hi-Rise Bread Company all donated food to sustain the walkers during their four-mile journey...
...saying that the cuisine at Harvard shows a complete lack of diversity. We seem to be doing fine in the grain department-indeed, choosing whether to toast a bagel, a muffin, white bread or multi-grain has left us chasing the shuttle on many early morns. And the spectrum of vegetables isn't poorly represented either-imagine, butternut squash and snow peas on the same night...
...Although the major action of the novels takes place in a magical land of wizards, the real world is never far away. In contrast to older children's novels which featured white-bread boys' schools, Rowling's Hogwarts School is co-ed, and its pupils come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. And like so many of today's movies and TV programs, Rowling's story is straightforward about the tragedies and violence in its characters' lives. Harry has painful memories of his mother screaming as she is brutally murdered, and each book contains descriptions of suffering and tragedy...
...course--a "young sage," dismissing his ideas as "second- and third-hand musings." The New York Observer, a metropolitan weekly that is to the disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found Purdy just as cloying and irritating. Among New Yorkers whose daily bread is irony, heavily buttered with sarcasm and ridicule, Purdy's message of earnest civic-mindedness was as welcome as a vice cop at a bachelor party...