Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides the fast food items, innovations in dining hall menus also include shrimp and chicken stirfries, couscous, and tabouli. Although these have received mixed reviews from students, it appears they are here to stay...
Cambridge may not have Taco Bell yet, and a craving for Wendy's still means a T-ride to Boston. But that doesn't really matter now that dining halls on campus provide fine facsimiles of fast food fare...
Attendance at a live Saturday Night Live broadcast, as well as the private bust-out that followed, was a mandatory lap on the fast track. Some cruised through; others crashed. No one was surprised when Aykroyd glanced down at the anonymous girlfriend passed out on the floor and coolly observed, "If you can't handle MiGs, don't fly in MiG alley...
...Illinois Institute of Technology is a grove of steel ectoskeletons, essentially giant one-room buildings. The Farnsworth House (1951), a planar H-beam box floating over a floodplain outside Chicago, was Mies' last modest building, and the most affectingly American one. (Alas, his project for an Indiana fast-food stand never got built.) Farnsworth looks like a house, just barely. After it came almost nothing but true Miesian "universal space": high-rises, modeled on his twin apartment slabs (1951) on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, that were supposed to serve any purpose--living, working, learning--in any region...
This pose of respectability is part of the joke, of course. Nothing underscores outrageousness better than a no-nonsense manner. Frazier's method reaches an apotheosis of sorts in the title story. Things begin innocently enough: "In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore." In arguing that men should start taking a sexual interest in their moms, Frazier, like any responsible essayist, raises possible objections to his plan: "One problem is that lots...