Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may be some nasty fun in all of this meat ax malice, and some political truths as well. But most of it is so extravagantly hostile that even a determined Nixon hater may find himself feeling an unexpected sympathy for the victim.With enemies like that, Richard Nixon may have to lean less on his friends...
...Paris, which sent to Persepolis 165 chefs, wine stewards and waiters. Maxim's shopping list included 25,000 bottles of wine-including a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, 1945, at $100 a bottle-that were sent to Iran a month early to rest. There were also 7,700 Ibs. of meat, 8,000 Ibs. of butter and cheese, and 1,000 pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails...
...shoots, small fish, crabs and tadpoles that they catch with their hands. Through contact with Dafal, the Tasaday have learned to trap birds in a sticky substance; civet cats, rats, monkeys and pigs are taken in primitive traps. Fires are still set by rubbing pieces of wood together, and meat either roasted over an open flame or boiled in bamboo cooking tubes...
...years Butcher Jack Savenor of Cambridge, Mass., has counted French Chef Julia Child as one of the steadiest customers at his United Service Supermarket, which is said to offer the best cuts in New England. Whatever the quality of the meat, though, the underground paper Boston After Dark has now accused Savenor of short-weighting. A B.A.D. reporter bought a whole rib of beef, which he says Savenor weighed at 40 Ibs.; on the scales of the Boston Bureau of Weights and Measures, it came to 35 Ibs. A rib marked at 35 Ibs. weighed only 32 Ibs. on Savenor...
...Hickman scenes strike the viewer particularly because, for once, the antagonists are clearly defined, and their personal conflicts complex. The incidents are restricted, so that their meat is revealed without harsh imposition on attention-span. And, finally, they say something definite: they not only describe how the army deals with an unbalanced individual, but why, by design, it is incapable of doing so. Hickman is urged to pick himself up, and keep on struggling with the group: that's the only way to be a man. It is, of course, the only way the army can conceive...