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Cambodia has become a net exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told...
...held so long and so power fully in the writer's imagination that it overwhelms the reader. Like Tolkien's other books, The Silmarillion presents a doomed but heroic view of creation that may be one of the reasons why a generation growing up on the thin gruel of tele vision drama, and the beardless cynicism of Mad magazine, first found J.R.R. Tol kien so rich and wonderful. Says proud Fëanor, explaining why he will not give up to the Valar the jewels he worked so hard to craft: "For the less even...
...shown in Britain, the program started a Trollope boomlet, and it may do the same thing in the U.S. An early American admirer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, once wrote that Trollope's novels had "the strength of beef and the inspiration of ale." After a steady diet of TV gruel, Americans may find The Pallisers nutritious fare indeed...
...cheering news of the protest campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month-long hunger strike. Before and after his fast, Bukovsky, like other prisoners, received only minimal fare. Lunch consisted of thin gruel, while dinner was a watery, acid soup. Inmates also received ¾ oz. of sugar and 2 oz. of salted fish per day. "It's rotten fish," Bukovsky recalled. "I don't know what sea they catch it in, but I couldn...
...items in the campaign were Carter's sexual fantasies and Miss Lillian's fish pond. That's pretty thin gruel to run a campaign on," he said...