Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trees (originally known to the Chinese as penjing). Likewise the microchip and the small, inexpensive car. Tempura, the name of one of the Japanese dishes most popular among foreigners, is a mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating it every day for pleasure. Even Kobe beef, on which every Japanese dotes when he can afford to, is a Western import. The first cow butchered in Japan died for the table of an American consul in Shimoda in the 1850s, and a monument...
...essence, Japanese food is modular food, miniaturized, and the ideal gastronomic experience is a line of small, distinct events rather than a symphony (or cacophony) of spreading transformations. As with food, so with design and technology...
...innocent charm as a teenager. Celia inspires mixed admiration, envy and anticipation from the other girls, who hear their mother warn of "Endless betrayal, maidens forsaken, drowned or turned slut..."even as they witness their sister's endless stream of romances. Chase builds her feminine voice from this distinct consciousness, rooted firmly in the girls' sexuality...
Four granddaughters of more or less the same age rowdied about the house. They were two sets of sisters whose personalities were distinct enough but who formed until midadolescence a tribe more formidable than any single member. The novel's effective but highly unusual narrative voice reflects this collective consciousness. Scenes are related by "we," never by "I." When the reader notices this he may try to isolate a single speaker by elimination: Katie has crawled under the stall door, Anne is wedged there, and Jenny is looking for a dime, so it must be Celia...
...much of its ideology from the black separatism of the 1960s but derives its political force from the unprecedented raw numbers-15 million or more-of a group linked to a single tongue, Spanish. The new metaphor is not the melting pot but the salad bowl, with each element distinct. The biculturalists seek to use public services, particularly schools, not to Americanize the young but to heighten their consciousness of belonging to another heritage. Contends Tomás A. Arciniega, vice president for academic affairs at California State University at Fresno: "The promotion of cultural differences has to be recognized...