Word: larded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jimmie Durham -- parodic weapons made out of rusty gun parts, salvaged wood, plastic pipe -- deal with race and cultural resistance, but do so by imaginative, not merely rhetorical, means. Even Janine Antoni's sculptures -- a big cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist and a fairly repulsive mound of lard chewed up by her, flanked by a vitrine or mock reliquary displaying chocolate cases and lipsticks made from the residue of both (link between bulimia and beauty cult, get it?) -- have a sort of Monty Pythonish looniness that makes them almost endearing as traces of obsessive effort...
...triangle of the sentient, sexy vat of vegetable shortening, named Cris, a sensitive stick of Mazola margerine and the lovely Florence Henderson, Wesson oil spokesmodel. In addition to working through their various affairs of the heart, they would spend every free moment tirelessly fighting to free the world of lard...
Well, The Crimson found this lard idea a little hard to swallow, and my mom suggested that maybe when I came home for Thanksgiving she'd invite our neighbor, the psychiatrist, over for dinner. I got the hint, so I gave up on the idea...
...food-industry officials. The first sentence was bound to catch their attention: "Is your company an accessory in the deaths of untold numbers of heart attack victims?" The letter went on to urge the food companies to remove coconut and palm oil from their products, as well as lard and beef tallow, all of which contain high levels of saturated fat. NHSA, the letter warned, planned soon to alert the public about "the dangers of highly saturated oil products...
...with the aid of Senate Republicans.) The President compounded the confusion with daily shifts in his position on taxes. Democratic majorities on the appropriations committees began filling in the blanks of a vague plan to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. But they took time to lard their proposals with the usual favors for vested interests, such as imposing a 9 cents per gal. fuel tax on railroads at the behest of the rival American Trucking Associations...