Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ribs--The quintessential Memphis dish. The ribs at Corky's, a well-known Memphis restaurant, are arguably the best in the world. (Memphis is the site of an annual world barbecue festival, remember.) The ribs the lawyers eat in the movie are "wet ribs," slathered with barbecue sauce. When a place refers to "Memphis-style ribs," they're talking about "dry ribs," which are cooked with spices and served sans sauce. Both are terrific...
...shot for a million. Then it all started vanishing like a dream. Within days, he was back at work fixing the aging steam pipes around Camp Lejeune. Back in his neat three-bedroom brick house on a rural lot dotted by a stand of loblolly pines and a satellite dish. Back in Beulaville, a town so small that wife Vickie jokes, "We just got our second traffic light." Back to oblivion. In a week there'd be no more crews from CNN and ESPN, no more calls from radio stations in Texas and Tokyo...
...have [had] the good fortune of making friends with people who work there full time. They've been really nice to me," said Jeanne L. Kwong '96, who works in the dish room. "They all work together and joke around and get along...
...wait long to find out. By this time next year, vast new video services will be available, at a price, to millions of Americans in all 50 states. Next spring Hughes Communications will introduce DirecTv, a satellite system that delivers 150 channels of television through a $700 rooftop dish the size of a large pizza pie. At about the same time, Tele- Communications, Inc. (TCI), the world's biggest cable-TV operator, will begin marketing a new cable decoder that can deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service to 100 cities...
...suits the peripatetic nature of the narrative. The world is an agora through which Moores and McPhee amble and learn. Whenever their exchanges seem about to burst with an excess of ophiolites, abyssoliths and subduction zones, McPhee relieves the pressure with anecdotes and historical nuggets. Included is a tectonic dish of special interest to Californians. During the past 2,000 years, part of the San Andreas Fault near Los Angeles has been wrenched by 12 major earthquakes. On average they occurred 145 years apart. The most recent Big One hit in 1857. McPhee makes no predictions but figures his readers...