Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...culturally disaffected of many moral, political and even sexual persuasions. According to their hagiography, Bruce was hounded into drugs, poverty, madness and finally suicide by a repressively puritanical Establishment. It is upon this belief that a Broadway show, several books and now Bob Fosse's movie have fed-or tried to feed...
Bulldog Sherill Henry fed the loose ball back to Reyter. This time Reyter didn't fail. He slammed it into the unattended left side of the net to knot the game...
...designed with Los Angeles Couturier Bill Witten out of a rubbery fabric called stretch laurex, Hartman simply inserts the bottom of his electric guitar into a pelvic pocket, much the way a mother kangaroo snuggles her baby into her pouch. From electrodes in the pocket, the signal is fed through wires sewed into the linings to a cigarette-pack-sized transmitter housed in a thigh pocket. Via an aerial laced down the right leg, the impulse is broadcast to the main amplifier backstage and then blasted into the auditorium over the usual loudspeakers. To modify tone or volume, Hartman...
...world, nor is it fundamentally about food, and neither is it very much of a conference. The farmers aren't there, the poor aren't there, and neither are the 400 million unemployed or the hundreds of millions of malnourished and hungry. Instead the crisis-managers, and the well-fed and the technocrats are present. The Conference is not about food, because agenda items officially do not concern the inequities of consumption and distribution of resources by which to use food resources. It isn't even a conference in any real food sense, but something like a conspiracy of silence...
...earth's agriculture. People in developing countries eat roughly 400 Ibs. of grain per capita annually (barely more than the pound daily they need for survival), mostly in the form of bread or gruel; but an American consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient use of resources. For every pound of beef consumed, a steer has gobbled up 20 Ibs. of grain. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer notes that "the same amount of food that is feeding 210 million...