Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father [a wheelwright] was an "old man" of about 60 when she was born. Though her mother was over 40, Chiang Ch'ing remembered her as being much younger than her father and showing far greater tenderness. "Because we were poor and had little to eat, my father was always beating or cursing my mother." He beat the children whenever he felt the urge, but when he savagely attacked the mother all the children rallied around her, trying their best to protect her. As she was returning home from school one day, her attention was drawn to the sound...
...might get to go ice-climbing again," he said. "Besides, I like to eat snow...
Last Book. "Our purpose is the revival and restoration of pure Islam," the pudgy, bearded Wallace declared to the throng at Chicago's gold-domed central mosque on Survival Day weekend. No longer is Fard to be considered divine, according to Wallace, for "God does not eat, he does not drink." Nor is Elijah Muhammad to be considered the "Messenger of God." Wallace's view: "The Prophet Mohammed is the seal of the prophets, and the Koran is the last book." The soft-spoken Wallace Muhammad, who had originally wanted to be an electronics technician, privately questioned Fard...
Woody meets all sorts of people on his travels--rich epicureans who proudly describe the delicious meals they've eaten in various parts of the country (Woody, who hasn't eaten in a couple of days, observes sardonically that "The more ya eat, the more ya shit"), truck drivers, boxcar bums and rod riders, and, of course, fellow Dust Bowl refugees. Both Woody and the viewer are seeing the hidden, dark side of the American dream--the poverty and misery of the unemployed masses contrasts starkly with the affluence of the epicureans and of the priest who refuses him charity...
...dumpy and slump-shouldered tying their slipper laces or trudging heavily on their heels. ("After all, have you ever dated a dancer?" a modern critic of Degas' regularly asks his modern art classes. "I once did, and believe me, their legs are as thick as tree trunks and they eat, why they eat like horses...