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Word: corns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beverage (in most other countries, milk and coffee are favorites), and we drink more Coke than any other soft drink. Television ads already have us convinced Coke goes with life, rain, farming and smiling. Now they'd have us believe a complete breakfast is comprised of eggs over easy, corn flakes and Coke Classic...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Snap, Crackle and Pop | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

...machine factory, or (in a crypt below the graveyard of New York's Trinity Church) the skeletons of Alexander Hamilton in his wig and Robert Fulton with his steam engine. Ruckus America is all one big pop-up book, done in an impressively resourceful, oompahing parade of stylistic parodies: corn-pone cubism, red- neck deco. The way buildings splay and their ground cants toward the viewer comes straight out of German expressionist cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corn-Pone Cubism, Red-Neck Deco | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...incendiary Cajun-style blend of black and cayenne peppers, herbs and spices in Blackened Spice Marinade, from Taylor Maid in Jackson, Miss. The powdered mix works its fiery magic on burgers, grilled chicken and shrimp. And if that is not hot enough, munch on crunchy "red hot blue" corn chips from Garden of Eatin' in Santa Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Fancy Is as Fancy Does | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...fuller sense of herself. Uncluttered by flirtation, the contrast between the student's will to win and her teacher's self-destructive need to fail emerges sharply, and the play becomes a discerning essay on how much of anyone's fate is self-imposed. Like Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, to which it owes its basic theme, this Rita convincingly argues that the discovery of learning is far more seductive, even to the young, than the exploration of mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three for A Two-Way Exchange | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Though P&G apparently has a large lead in the race to market a fat substitute in the U.S., scientists for several rival companies are working on similar substances. Among the possible competitors: the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo (maker of Lay's potato chips and Fritos corn chips), CPC International (Mazola corn oil and Hellmann's mayonnaise) and the Lever Brothers subsidiary of Unilever (Imperial margarine and Mrs. Butterworth's syrup and pancake mixes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Fake Fat Yield Plump Profits? | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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