Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) lecturer has given her students an unusually fowl assignment--slaughtering chickens and creating sculpture from the birds' bones--prompting disgust from some students and fascination from others...
With their ready-to-eat chicken products, the fowl combatants hope to pluck some feathers from such fast-food chains as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. "They have siphoned off about 20% of supermarket poultry sales in the past five years," estimates Kent Hill, a marketing executive for Holly Farms. That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan...
...Foggy Day and The Man I Love have become pop classics and jazz standards, the High Gershwin of Porgy and Bess and Concerto in F finds detractors. They began sounding sour notes as early as 1925, when the New York Times critic found the concerto's "instrumentation . . . neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring." Composer Virgil Thomson wrote, "Gershwin does not even know what an opera...
Others say that the chicken wings just aren't worth the money and say that in fact the food is, well, downright fowl. Elke Z. Baker '90 says, "They're not worth the trouble. You have to go through skin and bones to get the meat...
Muir, who holds a doctorate in poultry genetics, offers a three-credit course in basic livestock and poultry management practices. This course teaches fowl physiology and the basic principles of how to manage birds through hands-on experience at the 6000-chicken Penn State Poultry Farm...