Word: meal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intentional deceptions won't work. I'm referring to Barbara Bush. Does anyone really believe Barbara Bush is out there in the ghettos, teaching youngsters how to read? Does anyone really think that George walks around the vicepresidential living room, slapping Barbara on the butt after a tremendous meal? Bush's familial affections just don't match up to Dukakis' loving relationship with his wife. He shouldn't even try to compete...
...Korea a special meal starts with a colorful tray of kujolpan, morsels of meat and vegetables to whet the appetite. This show is kujolpan for the 177 1/ 2-hour feast to follow...
...Americans live in cities full of appalling contrasts: the verminous tenements rub up beside the million-dollar developments; the high-rises tower over the ghettos. It is hard for those who trip on a beggar as they leave a restaurant, where they may have just spent more on a meal than some people earn in a week, to claim that they cannot spare some change. The question, rather, is, Should they...
...bank holdup. The eccentric hero of Morgan's Passing (1980) handles the problem of freedom not with flight but with flamboyant masquerades. The poignant conceit of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) is a beanery that resembles a kitchen where lonely people can assemble, if only for a meal. The Accidental Tourist (1985), Tyler's most winsome expression of imagination on a short tether, is about a travel writer who hates to travel...
BIGGEST WINNER. The Big Easy, New Orleans, a place where it is almost impossible to have a bad meal or a bad time -- and where the natives very thoughtfully do not put scales in most hotel bathrooms...