Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in the heartland of "traditional" democracy, the United States of America, there are whiffs of disenchantment. The "populism" surging through American politics these days has a certain antidemocratic flavor. Or, at least, it reflects a resentment of democratic institutions and procedures. "Washington" and politicians have replaced "Wall Street" and rich businessmen as populism's favorite targets. The favorite populist remedies -- congressional term limits, a balanced-budget amendment -- would be new constraints on democracy. And, like earlier versions, today's populism hungers for a strong leader on a white horse. Thus Ross Perot, America's would-be Fujimori...
...stands for "mega," since fanzines are by definition produced not by megacorporations intent on market shares, but by individuals (or small groups of people) who basically want to tell you what they like and dislike, and why. There are probably several thousand such publications devoted to one or another flavor of what I've been calling "underground rock," and 10 or 12 that I read "religiously"; the few zines I'm going to talk about here are distinguished not so much for their slavish reflections of my particular taste, but for their widespread availability (i.e. you could walk into Newbury...
...every cup of tea you want to make. Next, pour cold water from the tap (it's fresher than hot water) into a kettle and bring the water to a vigorous boil. Otherwise, the water won't be hot enough to release the full flavor...
Sugar and milk are nice additions to your tea. But avoid cream--its strong flavor overpowers...
...Latin flavor that has attracted businessmen has also turned Miami into the capital of Hispanic TV and music, complete with a "Latin Hollywood" of resident stars like Julio Iglesias and Gloria Estefan. "Miami has become the meeting place of the Americas for the Spanish-speaking world," says Ray Rodriguez, the Cuban-born president of the No. 1 Spanish-language network in the U.S., Miami-based Univision. "Go to a restaurant like Victor's Cafe, and you know half the people -- the writers, the stars and the reps." Many of them live in Miami: the Venezuelan singing idol Jose Luis Rodriguez...