Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting as if he did not have a care in the world, Ronald Reagan might have been just another wealthy, leisured Californian doing his routine chores last week. He visited his tailor, barber and butcher, where he picked up two shopping bags of veal and beef from his private meat locker in the town of Thousand Oaks. To some 50 people who turned out to greet him, he remarked: "You mean to tell me a farmer doing his work is of this much interest...
...comparison with other East bloc nations, Polish life was seemingly not all that bad. The average wage ($200 a month) and per capita meat consumption (152 lbs. a year) were surpassed only in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Private hard-currency bank accounts were legal, passports were relatively easy to obtain and the state provided the usual panoply of Communist benefits: guaranteed jobs, free medical care, factory-sponsored vacations. But this was not enough. Poles were tired of standing in endless lines: for meat, flour, sugar and other staples. They were tired of shoddy, overpriced goods, when they could...
...shortages are worse than usual these days, because of hoarding inspired by Solidarity's strike threats last month. "People are buying three or four times what they need," complained a Warsaw housewife. The shortages, combined with panic buying, last week caused the government to introduce rationing of meat and butter. The endless lines, as always, are a source of a Polish staple-black humor. One recent joke: If the Russians invade, why will they send our economic planners to Siberia...
Like his parents, Hanson still butchers his own meat for family meals, heats herd house with wood, and uses cowboys on horseback to trail his herd down a the summer ranges. But now he rides in a Ford pickup, with a CB radio crackling away. He relies on machines - swathers, balers and stackers - to get the hay in. He is constantly on the phone to his accountant in Helena, and spends hours hunched over the kitchen table with his pocket calculator. "Ranching is a lot, lot more than raising cattle nowadays," says Hanson. "It involves accounting, mechanics, sophisticated farming...
...minimalist risk, of course, is chopping away the meat with the fat. Syrie Maugham, the great minimalist interior designer, discarded her earliest works, stark unpainted rooms devoid of furniture and even windows, for what later became her classic minimalist style, rooms done completely in white in which enormous windows played a crucial role. Likewise, Mamet progresses in Reunion to achieve the depth that got lost in Dark Pony, and expands his message to the maximum...