Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...readers have always been in search of 15 minutes of fame, 15 minutes of mindless ecstatic delight in the marginalia of our college, continually examined and undressed. Addictively, slavishly, we read FM with our eyes glazed with dim recollection, with our teeth gnashing over memories of the low-fat plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only in the "style" of a certain century, Fifteen Minutes encourages us to revel in the pop cultural...
...expect a Democrat to act in defense of traditional Democratic constituencies. But Clinton's attachment to the status quo extends even to a defense of farm subsidies. Republicans, it is reputed, like to target women and children but would never go after agricultural fat cats. Well, the g.o.p. has proposed an $8 billion cut in farm subsidies. Clinton responded with a ringing attack on those who would "turn and walk away from the farmers of this country in the name of cutting spending...
...turned out, it wasn't a home at all, but a software counterfeiting factory known in the digital underground as a "warez house." In one bedroom police found eight copying machines that could churn out 130 floppy disks an hour. Another bedroom contained fat stacks of glittering hologram stickers -- laser-produced, three-dimensional images that are supposed to guarantee the authenticity of store-bought software. The third bedroom held boxes of stolen computer chips, worth more per ounce than crack cocaine. And in the living room piles of fake Microsoft user's guides spilled from open cartons...
...possible, more tragic still. The animal's flayed head seems to be witnessing its own death, in the form of two hunks of rib cage propped against one another, and the way Goya has rendered the structure of dark red meat and the spectral, yet dense and greasy white fat is both factual and haunting. These low mounds of form, bluntly placed against a background of no-space black, come out of the same sensibility that recorded the nameless piles of human bodies in The Disasters of War. This is the realization of the inevitability of death that the older...
Last weekend, the squad travelled to Rhode Island and raced The Reaper's Revenge--a 20-mile Eduro course event sponsored by the Eastern Fat Tire Association (EFTA). Over 500 racers competed in every division from beginner to professional...