Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours later, I'm down at the local galaxy-class grocery store, in Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct...
Have these individuals fallen prey to charminggimmicks and the appeal of efficiency, losingsight of the true gastronomic splendor of thedessert experience? What about the honest,rewarding work that goes into carving rock-solidice cream out of a bucket with a sticky scooper?If this seems hyperbolic, observe one student'ssuggestion that "Currier House should be renamed'Fro-Yo House,'" Casual joke or flagrant idolatry?The same student calls the process of servingfro-yo a "creative outlet; you get a chance tosculpt and relax at the end of your meal time."The simple act of trying to get a serpentine ropeof...
...engineer sees the bed in flames, runs into the hallway, finds a janitor's closet containing a sink and a bucket, turns the water on high, fills the bucket, and drenches the fire, in the process making a wet sooty of everything...
...physicist enters his room and sees the inferno. He pauses to make some rough measurements, runs into the hallway making order of magnitude calculations, finds the bucket, fills it with just enough water, and precisely pours it where it has the greatest effect, wasting little water and minimizing damage...
...mathematician takes note of the blaze, runs into the hallway, finds the cleaning closet, checks that the faucet is operating and the bucket is intact, runs back to the room to re-examine the fire, then says proudly, "Aha! A solution exists...