Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known varieties of bats the vampire, for example, turns out to be one of the easiest to domesticate. Weighing but an ounce, it requires only a tablespoon of blood a day. It will sip this ration either cold from a dish or warm from a small, painless bite it makes in a convenient extremity of its sleeping provider. Contrary to Draculan film fantasies, the vampire does not fly but tiptoes to its midnight snack in a semierect position. Judging from Miss Leen's photos of the procedure, the creature bears far more resemblance to Lon Chancy hamming...
...seems that they could dish it out, but they can't take it now that they must account for their excesses...
...food is a total effect, localizing itself in the stomach. We digest not only the dish but the feeling of being in the room and among the people around us. For this reason, if you're eating out inexpensively, I suggest a few places whose food, supplemented by an endearing sordidness, a stylized squalor, transcends its own mediocrity. When it comes to food, in the end, we must cherish this: The exotic synthesis of antiquity and modernity rather than the onanism of self-service chain stores and surgical cafeterias or the pandering of polished fancy restaurants...
...GOOD things." the up-and-coming assistant professor of Philosophy postulated cheerfully while scraping the jimmies out of the bottom of his dish at Brigham's, "must come to an end." Which is the attitude we must all take in the next few weeks as we reluctantly release our grasp on the Interim...