Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frank still exerts appeal, but increasingly it has found succulent rivals in every U.S. city. McDonald's burgers (which are expressly forbidden by the franchiser to contain "hearts, lungs, tripe, suet, flavor boosters, preservatives, protein additives, fillers or cereals") have long passed the 6 billion mark in sales. The Near East may never solve its tensions, but American Arabs and Jews agree upon the merits of the felafel - Arabian bread stuffed with beans, salad, pickle, ol ives and sesame sauce. The gyro, a Greek concoction of lamb, tomato and onion, has pre-empted the frankfurter's place...
...finally happens in the second part. "Stones of Night 1956-61" is typical. Dawes excels in little league only because he's a clever cheater. In the next few years Dawes drinks by the quarry and consistently ruins his father's car. He gives everything he does an extra flavor. He is continually beaten up, to the point where he is spitting blood. Still, he continues in a Celtic hedonism and self-abuse. But there is one tragic event that changes his life. This leads to part three, "The Stones of Dust and Mexico...
...context of the rest of Our it reads like self-parody. There are pictures of walfuses, rhinos, zebras, tortoises and hippopatomuses getting laid. It looks more like a selection from Mad magazine than from what the PR men call Playboy's new publication with an international flavor...
...more effectively and at far less cost than all of the cold monuments and dull libraries that are now so prevalent. A steaming bowl of Eisenhower vegetable soup might warm recollections more quickly than rummaging through the Eisenhower papers in Abilene. How better to catch the flavor of Lyndon Johnson than by munching a deer-foot sausage or supping on hot Pedernales chili? Richard Nixon could be forewarned to start scouring his ancestral cookbooks, if only to avoid being commemorated by cottage cheese with ketchup...
...Education and his position in Republican politics, I had an early introduction to politics. He took me to board meetings from the time I was eight and to the Republican convention when I was 11. Although I was young and didn't always know what was going on the flavor was tantalizing. I liked the challenge--the combatancy and the competitiveness exited...