Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Centralization also leads to slowdowns and foulups. Three times in the past 18 months, the University of Alabama in Birmingham has sent copies of its affirmative action plan to HEW'S Office for Civil Rights. Three times the office has lost it. Says University Vice President Robert Glaze: "You're talking about a document roughly the size of the Manhattan telephone book." When the plan was finally found, the civil rights office declared regulations had changed, and the plan must be resubmitted?at considerable cost to the university...
...Seattle, Truffles sells (besides fresh truffles at $12.81 per oz.) 60 different marmalades, 32 pastas, honey from 45 countries, 750 wines and a highly prized condiment known as Arizona champagne mustard sauce (used with meat and fish and as a glaze for ham). Houston's Jim Jamail & Sons imports such esoterica as Maine cacklebird, Indian quail and Finnish grouse?and recently filled a client's request for 48 Ibs. of African elephant meat (which was cut into steaks and broiled...
...convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...
...announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity, Personal Maid Rose blurts out a childhood memory to Virginia Bellamy. Ever so slightly, the good lady's eyes begin to glaze over...
Sixty-six years ago, a young English art student in Tokyo found himself at a gathering of Japanese sculptors, painters and poets. Their party game consisted of decorating unglazed raku (stoneware pottery), which could be painted, glazed and fired within an hour. The foreigner was handed a plate. He was nonplused. "What on earth does one put on a pot? . . . I made a drawing of a parrot. They plunged it into some glaze and it turned quite white; I thought they didn't like my drawing, but then I saw everyone's plate went through this process...