Word: lemon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This fall, after almost three years of study, the Food and Drug Administration will impose a ban on the use of six sulfite preservatives in fresh produce. Not waiting for the ban, many supermarkets and restaurants have already stopped using the substances, sometimes substituting diluted citric acid or lemon juice. "The ban is a step in the right direction," Attorney Mitchell Zeller of the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest concedes. "But the public is by no means protected." About 7 million lbs. of sulfites are now used in the U.S. each year, on far more than...
...tractors down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to complain that government cutbacks make it impossible for them to take their vacations in the Caribbean (or so our president says)? Would cowboys ever neglect a shootout at the O.K. Corral in order to debate the merits of seeing their reflection in lemon-scented, smoothly-polished table tops...
...salt, star anise, cinnamon, ginger, coriander and nutmeg. Other revelations in flavor contrasts were the diced kidneys and sweetbreads sauteed with earthy mushrooms and the high-styled version of tete de cochon (pig's head), here with the meat boned, diced and pungent with parsley, shallots, ginger, coriander and lemon. The accompanying mashed potatoes have inspired critics to wax eloquent...
...large, spare third-floor office lined with cream-colored silk wall coverings. On the walls hung portraits of Marx and Lenin. The center of action was a table flanked by 18 chairs, covered with green baize and amply supplied with plates of sweet pirozhki (bite-size pastries), mineral water, lemon soda and cut- glass vases filled with colored pencils. Extensively briefed by his aides, Gorbachev had brought along typewritten notes ruled in red, blue and green. He also brought an expert: seated next to him was Georgi Arbatov, Moscow's best- known Americanologist. Viktor Sukhodrev, who has served...
...Lemon test is a lemon," protested Forest Montgomery, spokesman for the National Association of Evangelicals. The American Civil Liberties Union, however, called the rebuilding of church-state separation a "welcome exercise in true conservatism." A.E. Dick Howard, the University of Virginia law professor who represented taxpayers challenging Grand Rapids' school program, acknowledges that the cases return the court to the mainstream of its own past decisions. But the close vote "shows there is much to be fought over with the next vacancy on the court," he noted. "The majority of five includes most of the older Justices." Says University...