Word: meats
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...diverticulitis, a disorder common to older people that causes pouches to develop in the intestinal walls. This may also be responsible for the blood found in two stool samples. On the advice of his doctors, the President has gone on a high-fiber diet before further tests. Because red meat can cause a positive test for blood in the stool, Reagan will temporarily be eating fewer of the rare steaks he enjoys now and then...
...woman with two rows of silver teeth, dressed in a blue coat and woolen scarf, in Moscow for the day to shop: "I don't know anything about Gorbachev; I only know that we had bread under Chernenko, and we will continue to have it under Gorbachev. There is meat in the shops too. I have a pension, and Gorbachev won't take it away from...
...trouble. The hero of The Hungry Lion, 1905, has a crescent of human dentures, and might be biting into a watermelon; the unhappy antelope, because of Rousseau's difficulty in drawing its head twisted at such an angle, is duckbilled; the eagle and owl, with their strips of meat, look stuffed. And yet the jungle--that lattice of leaves and fronds, each carefully turned toward the eye to display its full shape--is a majestic, formal green machine that fills its animal signs with utter conviction...
...city of Rostov, authorities uncovered a huge black-market ring; 67 officials, including two highly placed state executives in Moscow, were arrested. The scheme involved rerouting, through bureaucratic channels, scarce meat, butter and clothing to warehouses where the merchandise could be sold under the counter. Realizing that the authorities were closing in, the crooks dumped most of their hoarded supplies onto the official market. In describing the outcome of the scam, the newspaper Izvestiya noted that for once, a Rostov citizen was able to walk into a state-owned store, ask for blue jeans and find them not only available...
Basically a "Revenge Of The Rarified Nerds," Function is a tale of social scatology. The hero, Gilbert Chilvers (Michael Palin of Monty Python fame), is a man shat upon. His story is a struggle for status, which in the throes of postwar means meat All the town aristocrats are dining on veal and steak while poor Gilbert meekly spoons Spam from...