Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a dentist's drill, a meat grinder . . . Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another . . . Explode steam boilers to make railroad mist. Take petticoats and the like, shoes and false hair, also ice skates...
...virtually the only sign of vitality in otherwise depressed areas. Many own or manage 24-hour convenience stores in predominantly black neighborhoods. Says a black Texas Southern University maintenance man who stopped in for a snack at a Vietnamese-run store: "For the first time you can buy fresh meat right in the neighborhood. It's the idea that a foreigner can come in here and move up so quickly that disgusts people." City Councilman Anthony Hall sees the immigrants as models, not enemies. Says he: "They have pooled their resources and created some lucrative opportunities for themselves...
...Hanh, Tien and Trang, are now known as Hannah, Christina and Jennifer. Food too can be a sensitive issue. "My brother wants to become American all the way," says Imelda Ortiz, 17, who left Mexico for Houston at age one. "He tells my mother to cook American food like meat loaf and potatoes. Instead we cook rice and beans and fajitas (skirt steak...
...appearance of Japanese foods along with those of the Middle East, Latin America and the rest of Asia coincided with the new American obsession with health. This fare seemed to meet the demand for proteins other than meat (bean curd or tofu, fish, beans), less animal fat and more complex carbohydrates (rice or noodles). Indeed, many of these ingredients first appeared in this country on the menus of health-food restaurants...
...whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There are the humping, grappling figures on pallets or operating tables; the twisted, internalized portraits; the stabbings, the penetrations; the Aeschylean furies pinned against the $ windowpane; and the transformations of flesh into meat, nose into snout, jaw into mandible and mouth into a kind of all-purpose orifice with deadly molars, all of which aspire, in the common view, to the condition of documents. Here, one has been told over and over again, is the outer limit of expressionism: these are the signs...