Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're buying better cuts of meat, says the butcher, but driving an extra 100 miles to get a better car deal; saving money on toilet paper at Wal-Mart--"I never did that in the '80s," says a local businessman--so they have extra to spend on a better breed of golf club. The deli owner was confident enough to start her own business, but is worried enough that she doesn't yet dare raise the price of a liverwurst above $3.50. The local bankers see people with as much as $70,000 in charge-card debt, which could...
...could prove to be an advantage to farmers, however, since chickens and cows make their own myostatin. In the future, artificially brawny beef cattle could be a profitable source of fat-free meat...
Frankie is a waitress, and Johnny a cook, in a dive of a diner somewhere in the Big Apple. She comes home every day to a small apartment with meat loaf and beer in the fridge, a stuffed E.T. doll on the nightstand. "I had a parakeet once," she admits. "I hated it, I was glad when it died." Frankie is a pro at cloaking loneliness in irony. She probably was glad when Tweety bought the bird-farm, but then again, she'd never tell us otherwise...
...songs and sonnets provided the show with delightful spice, then its meat and bones, of course, consisted in the dramatic scenes, excerpted from the plays. The scenes were well-selected, but most of the scenes which involved more than one actor fell prey to the common Shakespeare performance problem of speeding. This habit was especially pernicious in an excerpt from The Comedy of Errors, in which the two actors portraying Antipholus and Dromio rushed and tumbled through their lines so fast that the bawdy jokes (as well as much of the sense of the scene) left the audience...
...blood pressure than vegetarians. But until now, scientists could only guess at what the reasons might be. Was it the absence of artery-clogging fat in their diet or something in the tofu that made their blood flow so smoothly? More to the point, is it possible for ordinary meat eaters with hypertension to reduce their blood pressure without going entirely macrobiotic...