Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington State fisheries report finding tumors in the livers of English sole, which dwell on sediment. Posted signs warn, BOTTOMFISH, CRAB AND SHELLFISH MAY BE UNSAFE TO EAT DUE TO POLLUTION. Lest anyone fail to get the message, the caution is printed in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese and Korean...
...working with high-calorie fare, he remains admirably thin. One reason: he rarely stops for lunch. In Kumin's world of mixtures, textures and boiling points, hands are sensitive instruments. With the touch of a finger, he can tell the temperature of chocolate to within 2 degrees. Although his English is pretty good, Kumin might not understand the concept of the temperamental chef. He is usually as sweet as milk chocolate, yet no pushover like the Pillsbury doughboy. He stops on his rounds to correct a technique with gentle humor, nod his approval of a creamy filling and assess...
IMAGINE not being able to answer any of the questions in the Blue category--Geography--of Trivial Pursuit. Imagine being asked to find the Pacific Ocean on a map and pointing to the English Channel instead. Imagine confusing the Soviet Union's location with Botswana...
...continue to educate Americans as though "Made in America" labels were the only ones in the products they buy, as though English was the primary language of the billion-plus people in the world, would be a huge disservice to the national interest...
...most impressive sculpture at this Biennale, however, is in the English pavilion: a survey of work by Tony Cragg, 39. It issues from a strong and wide-darting imagination. Cragg's sculpture is richly polymorphous, refusing to be pinned down in any style and incorporating such materials as bits of blue plastic scrap, bronze, wood, lab glass, plaster, cogwheels, rubber and sandstone. At times the results look mysteriously vulnerable and reserved, like Silicate, 1988, an array of laboratory beakers and bottles, sandblasted until holes appear in their milky skins. Other pieces are farcical: Code Noah is Cragg's gloss...