Word: mushroomer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ELIZABETH DOLE Prez dreams go up in a mushroom cloud of hair spray. But still better qualified than...
...affiliated hospitals' various projects and this new complex are expected to take seven years to build; the combined total cost is expected to mushroom to $800 million...
...Music] Mushroom Records...
...have a better idea. How about a cooking show for the rest of us? If your Cuisinart is gathering dust, if you account for some of foodtv.com's 16 million monthly page views yet will never make Crab and Wild-Mushroom Cheesecake with a Green-Onion Coulis, if culinary debate in your house centers on whether to pick up Happy Meals at the drive-through or eat inside, then tune in to Reality Bites...
...imagery. Witness a marvelous ink painting of vegetables by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). You can read it, with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he turned to painting full time). Gourds, melons, turnips, ears of corn and a shiitake mushroom surround an enormous forked white radish, lying as if in state on a basket. But as Singer points out, an educated 18th century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd...