Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This Town depicts a press corps hungry for any story that will sell. Finally, a scandal about the First Dog emerges to satiate their hunger, and Scampergate is unleashed. In spite of the play's parody of such "-gates" as Haircutgate, Nannygate and Filegate, Blumenthal paints a dark world in which nepotism, backstabbing and the unquenchable thirst for stardom plague journalism...
...existential side, consider the vast number of material benefits that Western civilization has brought us. Science and technological progress have tamed hunger and disease, drastically reduced the necessity of physical labor, and brought us to a higher standard of living than any seen in human history-including, students take note, the division of labor which allows some people to devote their time entirely to academic pursuits (and to bashing Western civilization). Contrast these benificent achievements with the age-old sorrows of malnutrition, disease, and back-breaking physical drudgery that plagued the peoples Columbus encountered in the New World...
Aunt Emma has been through poverty, war, widowhood, hunger and impossible choices. She struggles with what to tell Caridad, saying, "When you take the cloth in your hand and pull at this loose thread, there is a danger more stitches will come loose. Telling the truth is like that, it is much like telling a lie-- one leads to another. And soon all the stitches unravel, and the hem falls free because you pulled at just one loose thread. How much can I tell her? When do I stop...
...beauty, but I'm not particularly obese--maybe 20 lbs. overweight, most of it centered in my center. I've sweated on a StairMaster, gorged on cabbage soup, crunched ab trainers until my sides ached. Still, nothing suppressed those late-night hunger pangs. Willpower alone couldn't quell my urge for chocolate. I'd feel awful after every falafel, only to return the next week for another...
Suddenly sophomores were hit with the symptoms of Post-Yard Depression--weariness after trekking to the Quad in the absence of shuttle service, frustration over having to share one CUE guide among four suitemates, hunger from eating minimally while house dining halls remained shut...