Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that an oil boom puts on a small city's system. As Doreen (Priscilla Smith), a local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but a wide spot in the road. Now we got two shopping malls, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Cinema One, Two, and Three." They also got drugs, the local favorite being crystal meth, and their share of bar-room brawls...
...have a future in the humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets...
Cornell has an agricultural school and one of its charges usually finds its way into Lynah for the Cornell-Harvard showdown. Between the second and third periods, a chicken is tied to the Harvard goalpost. The crowd loves...
...project used a chicken in an investigation of the process involved in making a statement in sculpture. Students were asked to witness the entire process which delivers a chicken from the poultry farm to the table. By so doing, they put themselves in a situation which made them more aware of their own place in the life cycle...
...focussing on the essential elements of life and earth, these students broke through the buffers erected by our industrial and commercial society. Most of us, for example, have a limited sense of a pre-packaged commodity like a chicken as a living creature. The project questioned why we do not feel guilty while looking at chickens in the supermarket or while eating them...