Word: buttering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sending out an invitation, all across this mighty nation.../ Now's the time for relocation to a town like Celebration!/ Say you're out of butter and you'd like to get some more./ Or you need some safe detergent for the kitchen floor./ Just send your children over to the local Country Store!/ That's what Country Stores...
...much gas the 20-minute trip uses up. They rarely kiss each other goodbye in the morning. There's no time. Lori is usually out of the house by 7:30 and at work by 8. She skips breakfast but sips a Diet Pepsi and buys some peanut-butter crackers...
Problems start to arise, however, with the boisterousness of the kid personas: they tend to take center stage. Sullivan plays Anna's two kid personas to great comic effect: now an outrageous Chevalierian accent, now a tiny, tiny child's voice. One scene involving a single peanut butter and jelly sandwich reaches epic proportions, and one fears for the moment that Sullivan will explode onstage. Her Anna seems understandable impatient at times to return to the other personas: they're more...
From the Philippines to the United States. From San Francisco to New York City. From the '70s to the '80s, from jazz to rock, from lumpia (a Filipino dish) to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, from Tagalog (a language native to the Philippines) to English, from assimilation blues to a graceful homecoming. Jessica Hagedorn's new novel, The Gangster of Love, is a book about transition, movement, emigration, immigration and repatriation. Though the title could hardly be sillier or more ungainly--it sounds like an afterhours movie on Cinemax--the book itself is written with wit and style and ultimately...
Proud came my chieftains-- the stalwart Gore, the tiny Reich, wealth-sated Rubin--and took their seats around the counsel table-- Heavy-laden with soft drinks and those butter cookies the White House kitchen does so well-- that we might implore the all-knowing seer Dick Morris to divine for us what sacrifice--of cattle, oxen or welfare babies-- Might best propitiate the god of polls and focus groups, lighthearted Hermes, ruler of nations...