Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grateful Dead Movie. The odds are that everyone in the audience as well as everyone on the screen in this movie will be stoned--conditions perfect for the dose of excellent Dead concert footage that makes up the bulk of the movie. The initial animation sequence, featuring the Omar Khayyam skeleton-and-roses fellow, as well as other Dead album-cover regulars, is pretty impressive whether you're stoned or not. Afterwards, the music is presented unencumbered by the psychedelic claptrap groups like Led Zeppelin have thrown into their movies, or the self-consciousness of an "event" movie like...
...Habit may also be a factor, including the "bathroom as library" syndrome. Explains Los Angeles Proctologist Michael Freilich: "We were not meant to sit on toilets, we were meant to squat in the field." The American diet is also a culprit. Heavy on processed foods, light on fiber for bulk, it can produce constipation and straining. Obesity and pregnancy, too, may contribute to hemorrhoids because of the extra pressure...
...family's lunches are cooked by Mary, the Bui's black maid. But Simone usually prepares a Vietnamese-style dinner. She buys ingredients in bulk (20-30 lbs. of rice noodles at a time) from specialty stores as far away as Virginia and Baton Rouge, La. Their house is a meeting of East and West. Lacquered tables made by Vietnamese artisans and imported from Paris, a Chinese screen bought in Washington, a cowhide rug, a color TV, thick carpeting and soft upholstered sofas. "You show your Penney's card and take what you want home," chuckles...
...first time. Fifty years before, the same majestic tree that spans the garden had seemed the arbor of true love to Evelyn and Cecil, but he lost her to a stuffy rival. He tries to kindle the sere and yellow leaves of that romance, but, for the bulk of the evening, nothing comes...
...exporters. Argentina and Chile are increasing their capacity. By the early 1980s some of the oil-producing Arab countries will be turning out steel. In shipbuilding, South Korea and Brazil have some yards that are more modern than Western Europe's. Along with Poland and Taiwan, they can produce bulk carriers even more cheaply than Japan...