Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times over but lives in two small, slovenly kept hotel rooms. He travels with the fastest crowd in the country but rarely drinks and never snorts or smokes. He is offered the best jobs in his profession but turns most of them down. His idea of sin is to eat ice cream. His idea of a great time is to talk on the phone. His idea of heaven is to spend hours debating the pros and cons of Proposition 13. He wears dirty jeans three days in a row, chews vitamin pills and remembers everything. He makes coast-to-coast...
...were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled clothing. Neither will they eat honey because it is "too heavy on the bees...
...from sand piles; some were half-eaten, and the dogs had already picked clean one visible skull. Half the villages were deserted; some simply abandoned, others already looted. One saw, as one traveled, people chipping bark from trees, with knives, scythes and meat cleavers; you could grind bark and eat it. The trees would then die and be chopped down for firewood; perhaps all China had been deforested that...
...these things, but the worst was what I heard, which was about cannibalism. I never saw any man kill another person for meat, but it seemed irrefutably true that people were eating people meat. The usual defense was that the people meat was taken from the dead. In one village a mother was discovered boiling her two-year-old to eat its meat. A father was charged with strangling his two boys to eat them; his defense was that they were already dead. In one village, the army had insisted that...
...people die," said an officer to me, "the land will still be Chinese. But if the soldiers starve, the Japanese will take the land.") The army had emptied the countryside of food; shipped in no gram from grain-surplus areas; ignored the need of the people to eat. The army's tax, I found, was usually equivalent to the full crop, but in some cases it was higher-and peasants were sometimes forced to sell animals, tools, furniture, for cash to make up the difference. Moreover, the peasants were required to feed the army's animals when they...