Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shipped them off to the ramshackle town of Sweethaven. In residence, there are the Oyls, most notably Olive, Popeye's confused and confusing "sweet pattootie"; Swee'pea, Popeye's mischievous "adoptik infink"; the villainous, animal-like Bluto; J. Wellington Wimpy, the hamburger moocher; Rough-House, the short-order cook; Geezil, a boarder at the Oyls; and Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye's long-lost father. Several other bizarre characters skulk about having no apparent role other than adding to the absurdity...
...Chicago courtroom two weeks ago, the onetime angel pleaded not guilty to charges that he had stolen $1.3 million from his employer over the past four years to support his wife's ambitions. It was one of Cook County's largest embezzlement cases, and it could be a tragic last act for a promising opera company...
...whole last day of my visit coincides with the annual Peanut Jamboree, all outdoors on Main Street with maybe 300 souls in attendance, very few of them tourists-a flea market, old-fashioned cakewalks (for homemade cakes, each cook's name revealed so you know your source), bingo, food stands (one white, one black-with integrated patrons), puppets, a pleasantly inept bluegrass trio, somber teen-age gospel singers ("Praising the Lord the best way we can"), an integrated high school song-and-dance team (good enough for the Donny and Marie show), and the best clog dancing...
...seemingly endless number of technicians, scientists and intellectuals "sent down to the country" during the Cultural Revolution, Zhao raised hogs, pruned weeds, and built a lot of houses. He laughs as he stands over the gas stove in his Cambridge apartment, saying that he learned to cook on the farm, where he stoked the fire for 150 people. He talks wistfully about the "great deal of unnecessary cruelty," the "widespread violence," about people whose hands were tied behind their backs and, like dogs, were forced to eat steamed bread from the floor-or eat nothing at all. "The Red Guards...
...child knows the elements of survival: he must eat, drink and reproduce. His early life is filled with the imposition of rituals: toilet training, religious instruction, social communication and compromise. By the time he is an adult, he knows most of the games people play: how to dress and cook, shake hands, argue with a colleague, plead with a lover, break things, break up, make up, attack, escape or withdraw. In each "free" action, he is replaying the history of the race as stage-managed by an eons-old brain that wants simply to survive and conquer...