Word: mustards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's excellent taxicabs and subway system. The shortage of personal attention comes just when U.S. consumers are enjoying a cornucopia of novel products and services. Thus the deterioration of basic, personal service is taking the fun out of the new offerings. Shoppers can now find ten kinds of mustard and a dozen varieties of vinegar in a supermarket, but where is a clerk who can give a guiding word about these products? Airlines offer a bonanza of cheap fares, but many travel agents no longer want to be bothered handling such unprofitable business. That leaves consumers on their...
...Iraq, whose population is only 15 million, vs. Iran's 48 million. After a long stalemate, the military balance shifted somewhat last February, when the Iranians captured the Fao peninsula in southern Iraq and Iraqi forces failed to retake it despite massive bombardment and the alleged use of mustard gas. The Iraqis hit back by seizing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, but were later forced to give...
Karl probably has heard the tale several times before because in the Tasty, which holds to the motto "Round the clock conviviality with mustard, onions and relish," most things are constant and there is always a sense of circular return. Indeed just after most of the men left for their jobs some of the Harvard football players who had been there the previous night sat down at the counter in ties and blazers. They were having breakfast before they left for a road game and this time, in the sedate atmosphere of early morning, Karl didn't make them...
...creator of hits like Maybelline, Johnny B. Goode and Sweet Little Sixteen, turned 60 last week, the pop establishment came out to pay tribute to the grand, gyrating old man. Through two celebratory concerts for 9,000 fans at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, Berry, in a rhinestone, mustard- colored shirt, slinked along, scissored his knees and thumped on his guitar until 2:30 a.m. Working hard to keep up with him were such progeny as Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt and Julian Lennon. At a party afterward, Berry was presented with an oversize guitar-shaped birthday cake...
...problem with the stories is that introspection constantly muddies the portrayal of all the rotting relationships of which Klass writes. In "In Africa" the lover complains that he doesn't know what his girlfriend did all the time she was in Africa. The man in "A Gift of Sweet Mustard" imagines that his unemployed wife is carrying on an affair while he is at work during the day. Their anxiety and its aftermath of malaise isn't necessary. They are either too empty-headed or devious in a way that the author has completely neglected to clarify...