Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region, these salvos appear to be met by bemusement more than anything else. There are journalism professors here who say the Landmark is a personal journal more than a newspaper and should be savored as one man's meat. Brent Hackney, the Governor's press secretary, calls Windsor "Hunter Thompson in bib overalls." And the cable television channel in Chapel Hill has given Windsor a 30-minute talk show on Friday nights, such is his newfound popularity...
...charades and spinner of tales, young "Peter" (as he was called by everyone in the family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that the revelations were...
...stag mutton, n.: old, tough meat...
...subjective, and they promote a kind of hubris. Still, even allowing for that effect, it is sometimes hard to imagine what private anthems will arise from, say, punk or new wave music. Are there couples now that will for years grow mistily tender when they hear a ditty by Meat Loaf...
...discontent limited to a cadre of high level Washington liberals. Federal meat inspectors are protesting the Reagan administration's loosening of meat inspection standards, including proposals to speed up the number of birds to be inspected per minute from 70 to 105. More than 6000 workers last month endorsed and verified charges by consumer activist Ralph Nader that the new policies threaten public health. The Agriculture Department denies these charges but acknowledges. "The need to target inspection resources in an era of federal financial austerity is producing morale problems between labor and management...