Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack took the form of a 293-page report called The Chemical Feast. It was based on a two-year study of the FDA by Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader and 20 student volunteers, most of them specialists in medicine and law. Their report accused the agency of conspiring with the food industry to defraud consumers and even to endanger their health; FDA regulations, they argued, read like a catalogue of favors to special interests. Specifically, the agency was accused of allowing the sale of "enriched white flour" that is actually stripped of most nutrients, of permitting meat packers to increase...
...into the corners and was deep into the idea for a thirty-foot interlocking monument which would reveal to the seasonless people of California all the mysteries of budding and blooming. He pulled down the garage door and Merilee leaped naked for the rafters and depended her great square feast of a body in various attitudes while Sam sketched her. After seven hours of it, Merilee had to rest...
Sometime in the dark of that night a huge meal was partially consumed. Steak was there and eaten, and yogurt with kumquats and plum wine from Japan was drunk and coconuts were cracked with hammers and given to dogs. But the piece of resistance of the engagement feast was a vast baked pumpkin, so large it had barely squeezed in and out of Merilee's oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love...
...Alfred drive home. On the way she stopped several places, but the hogans were dark and the hearths cold. In a canyon by moonlight she gathered a handful of moose moss and an armload of wija grass. Not a feast, but enough for the likes of Sam. He banged away at 'La Primavera' while she cooked Keeble meatballs with garlic and moss. Delicious AND good for your...
Bach never heard the entire Mass in his lifetime. It is said that he wrote it for God. It must not be easy to serve ambrosia to mere mortals, but yesterday the University Choir served God's feast with such humanity and compassion that it seemed like Peter preaching to the fisherman...