Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepare dinner from donated food. Starting at 9:45, people enter, eat, and socialize with volunteers and other guests. The shelter is 'dry', and sends intoxicated people to the Somerville program. Curfew is at 11 p.m. and at least two volunteers stay overnight. They prepare breakfast in the morning...
Galapagos puts Vonnegut one more safe step beyond the complexities of good and evil. The narrator is an amiable phantom named Leon Trout, son of Kilgore Trout of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions. Leon speaks to us from the future, 1 million years after humanity is supposed to have $ extinguished itself. Among the survivors are a handful of tourists and Ecuadorian Indians on Santa Rosalia, an island in the Galapagos. It was there, in 1835, that Charles Darwin observed the variety of species that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed...
Maxwell House coffee. Log Cabin syrup. Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Jell-O. Birds Eye peas. From breakfast to dinner, millions of Americans eat General Foods products every day, never realizing that one company makes them all. While its products are household names, the firm, which had sales during its last fiscal year of $9 billion, is low-keyed, given to such simple boasts as "We sell more kinds of food and more of it." That tone may soon change. Last week General Foods was taken over by Philip Morris (1984 revenues: $13.8 billion), whose Marlboro man and Virginia Slims woman...
...Tourist, suffer from "geographic dyslexia." Like her usual cast of eccentric homebodies, members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...
...main avenue began to sway. Panicked tourists, many in nightgowns and robes, rushed into hotel lobbies. "I swear to God I thought my room was going to split in half," said one visitor from Dallas at the Hyatt Regency Excelaris. Hotel Worker Heriverto Flores was at home eating breakfast with his wife. "Tremors are nothing new to us," he said. "But this one was so hard we ran outside because we thought the house would come down...