Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen squatting men until early morning. Only when DeVoss was leaving did he discover that he had been sitting beneath a fetish shelf of bat wings...
...part of home that is not merely a place exists, so to speak, in the I of the beholder. It is not quite true that you can't go home again. The deeper truth is that you never leave the part of home that becomes the movable feast of the imagination. -By Frank Trippett
...salad are tolerable tasks." Laboring over a hot stove in party finery is out. New Yorker Colchie arranges her 32 menus by seasons but appends a number of ad hoc niceties like a Sensuous Birthday Dinner, the Last Outdoor Supper and a Valentine Weekend for Two, including love feast buns and amuse-bouche (tease the mouth) canapes...
Going to the Dogs. To tourists, there are no cuter animals: cuddly, light brown bundles of fluff that kiss (to identify each other) and wag their tails. To farmers and ranchers of the Plains states, prairie dogs are a major nuisance: they feast on valuable grasslands and dig hidden burrows that can break the leg of a horse...
Bluefish ravage and feast; beyond...