Word: hut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old taste buds still weren't very mature (Pizza Hut rated higher than four star restaurants in Chinatown), but once a sip of syrupy Coke had settled the last of the perfect gravy-con-carrot-beef-potato mixture in my stomach, they recognized a new, wonderful sensation...
...first glimpse of Russellville disappointed us. Electric signs from a few chain restaurants glowed dully on the side of an otherwise dark hill. In lieu of streetlights, a few hundred watts of "PIZZA HUT" lit the roadway...
...didn't want to eat at Pizza Hut. When you enter a Pizza Hut, whether you work there or you eat there, you sell you soul. You join the One-Culture-for-All Club, and maybe that's not so bad, but you give in to the unsettling homogeneity in America's lifestyle. We refused. No red-and-white checkered tables...
Shelter is a favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...
...They're supposed to be making policy for the United States, and they can't even keep their checkbooks balanced," said attorney Steve Adams of Naperville, Ill. "For God's sake, who's running the store?" Freshman Republican James Nussle was back in Iowa eating at a local Pizza Hut with his family when a nearby diner asked if he planned to pay by check. Democrat Pat Schroeder, who insists that she has not bounced any checks, says the furor "captures the brick-through-the-window political mood. It shows you how angry people are with the incumbents...