Word: mushroomer
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...said, were disappointing. Synthetic drugs from European and American pharmaceutical companies have already made their way into most Indian cultures. Weil reported that drug injections have become a very popular remedy for illness, for the Indians ascribe the same magic to the needle that they once attributed to mushroom and herb...
...years, Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage was the place to get a hamburger in the Square. But the hamburgers there have shrunk and the price has swelled, and unless you have a passion for the exotic (Radcliffe Burgers, Swiss Cheese Burgers, Mushroom Burgers), the mantle has shifted to Buddy's Sirloin...
...restaurants are ready to please (or displace, as the case may be). Chez Jean (1 Shephard St.) has very fine French food, considerably better than Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.) But Dreyfus attracts many distinguished Harvard faculty members and administrators, including President Bok, who eats chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce there on most working days...
...emotion as though he does not understand their significance. As he tells the history of that year, it seems as though one of the nuclear board-games he plays with Lieutenant Staley may come to life and flash the whole struggling crew to atoms in the puff of a mushroom cloud...
Theodore and the Talking Mushroom by Leo Lionni. Unpaged. Pantheon. $3.95. A mouse with an inferiority complex uses a mysterious mushroom for an Adlerian power play that fails. Leo Lionni is a well-known designer and ex-art director, whose collages, this time out, would scare a hoptoad. But anyone who figured that a talking mushroom would just naturally say "quirp" isn't to be lightly overlooked...