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...occasional guest. A recent lunch visitor found himself dispatched to the garden to pluck a lettuce. As he rinsed it he was confronted with a choice between fish-head soup and lentil soup. (Not straight fish heads, the host explained. Those go for fertilizer. Rather a nourishing fish-head broth.) The guest chose lentils. Followed by some lettuce leaves, drenched in dill-pickle juice, and then by rolls (left by a neighbor) that the bishop turned into dessert by adding some home-grown rhubarb. Such frugality is not done for the mortification of the flesh or the confusion of friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spokane: A Pauperish Yet Princely Churchman | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...good conscience, I can't extend lavish praise to the manipulators of the multimillion dollar charade--John Y. Brown and Irving Levin. Their actions have done little more than reinforce the feeling that pro basketball--like other professional sports--is soaking in its own big-business broth...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Nifty Desserts. Versatility is key. Vodka is now the biggest-selling distilled spirit in the U.S., perhaps because it can be mixed with anything from pineapple juice to beef broth and be at once potent and incognito. Heublein's Arrow line of cordials (from 40 to 90 proof) includes vodka flavored with peppermint, cherry and three other flavors. Women looking for nifty desserts are fond of the sweet drinks, such as Boggs cranberry liqueur, because they are good over ice cream, in a mousse or in cakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Sweet Spirits | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...different experiments. In addition, they decided that precautions to keep research organisms from escaping from laboratories had to include "biological containment." This required the creation of mutated strains of E. coli so disabled that they could live nowhere but in a test tube. If they did escape their special broth and enter the atmosphere-or human gut-they would die almost instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOOMSDAY: TINKERING WITH LIFE | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

George Jackson and the Soledad Broth ers - and recycles it into a racial morality play of staggering and offensive simplemindedness. The real George Jackson was gunned down in the yard of San Quentin Prison in 1971. Was he trying to escape, as prison officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Recycling Job | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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