Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invisible from the air and made escape from the mountain impossible. For more than a week, the little band lived on a daily ration of a square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing...
Pending such feats of instant nostalgia, all we are left with is the pictures. The crass cultural chauvinism and blatant flackery that surrounded and fed American pop have not by any means gone from the art scene, but they are muted. All the talk about how pop meant a democratization of the art experience, how it would obliterate the line between "art" and "life," has turned out to be the merest jive. It could hardly be expected to convince anyone in a world where Lichtensteins cost $50,000 apiece...
...Shirts/Skins, in which no one decided whether the intense rivalries generated in a pickup basketball game were a funny or sad commentary on the modern competitive spirit. But sometimes they do, as in I Love You ... Goodbye, in which Hope Lange gave a sensitive, appealing performance as a fed-up housewife running away from a middle-class marriage gone stale...
...weeks ago, indeed, a fed-up Umberto tried to quit in protest against a government-imposed labor contract that he considered the last straw. Umberto himself had asked Italy's Socialist Labor Minister Luigi Bertoldi to medi ate a three-month-old strike and slow down among Fiat's 200,000 workers...
...mood for another election and might lash out at the party that prompted one. Heath himself, before taking up his seat on the opposition bench, called on Britons "to set aside partisan differences." Privately, he attributed his defeat in part to the fact that the electorate was fed up with slanging-match politics...