Word: eater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert M. Coates, 75, short-story writer and art critic for The New Yorker for three decades (1937-67), and author of surrealistic fiction (The Eater of Darkness) who also launched a famous literary friendship in Paris when he introduced his onetime boxing partner, Ernest Hemingway, to Gertrude Stein; in Manhattan...
...Monte's new labels will be helpful to shoppers wishing to plan balanced meals. Those who consume mainly starchy vegetables like peas and beets, for example, can substitute more spinach and asparagus after a little common sense comparison of carbohydrate counts. Says Dr. Michael F. Jacobson, author of Eater's Digest: "It will require some maturity on the part of consumers to accept the fact that every food should not have to contain every vitamin and mineral." Del Monte Group Vice President James Schmuck agrees, saying that "the most important piece of information on the label...
PROFILE: Fussy. A finicky eater. An incisive mind. Handsome, Debonair. A forceful and articulate defender for the wild kingdom. His understanding of the natural and man-made laws concerning animals will lead others to a better appreciation of an animal's beauty and its crucial role in the balance of nature. Extremely smart, Quick reactions. Football MVP. Also lettered in baseball. Won Spanish award. Gutsy. Especially effective on rollout, but a good dropback passer...
...limitless dread, of imprisonment by infinite space, pertains to opium experience. Hence Piranesi's interest for some 19th century writers who, like Coleridge and Baudelaire, were opium addicts. "With the same power of endless growth and reproduction," wrote Thomas de Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium Eater, "did my architecture proceed in dreams." Today, for an audience soaked in cheap psychedelia, Piranesi's prisons are a reminder that only complex and fastidious minds have trips that are worth recalling. They do not represent a flash of hallucination, but rather a state of mind, developed over a long...
...Pentagon is usually singled out as an overbloated tax eater, but there are many others. The federal highway system, by the time it is finished in the late 1970s, will have consumed $76.3 billion. That is only direct cost; indirect costs include increased air pollution resulting from more driving, as well as the destruction of much housing for the urban poor in Baltimore, Detroit and other cities to make room for new freeways. Meanwhile, mass-transportation systems that could move people more efficiently have been starved for funds. In the Washington, D.C., area, the National