Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tina Turner is too sick to sing. Anemia has sapped the strength she needs to sell her raw-meat music. She can't go on. She must go on; Ike is there, all silky unspoken threat, to see that she fulfills her obligation to the man who found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling...
...Story-telling [is] an extremely serious matter and [has] at least as much intellectual toughness and dignity and complexity as delivery of point one, two, and three," Schama says, his forehead furrowing. "[In my writing] the meat of the history is very often in story-telling...
...father turned down an opportunity to attend Cornell in order to help his family start a meat market business, but once the business was on its feet, it was too late to go to college...
...when we sink our teeth into the meat of this article we discover that Mr. Frank's journalistic jabberwocky is not only mostly gristle but barely half-baked! All this in an article deemed a "news analysis." Unfortunately, Mr. Frank's rhetorical and seemingly gratuitous deployment of Mr. Burke's HIV-infected body as the "source" of possible communal corruption is nothing but old news...
Despite the passion of the debate, whaling has more symbolic than economic importance for both Japan and Norway. Japan presents whaling as an "aboriginal" enterprise deeply entwined in its culture; in fact, however, whale meat became popular after World War II, and today only a small percentage of the people regularly eat the $55-a-pound delicacy. The industry has been trying to muster public opinion by distributing slick brochures. One titled "Let's Take a New Look at Healthy Whale Meat" contends that it is high in protein, low in fat and "good for food-allergenic people." Norway...