Word: onions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bagel creativity is also blossoming. To standard varieties such as poppyseed, onion and raisin, please welcome nutty banana, chocolate chip and spinach herb...
...worked. By ninth grade, I was no longer broken-heartedly inspecting the color of the onion dip. I still made the occasional punch bowl run, but could now return to a respectable number of partners. But I still didn't like the wild new system. I resented its disorganization, its unpredictability and its unfairness...
...make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which are most popular for children-alfalfa sprouts or onion sprouts?" "Alfalfa," Raftery replies after thinking it over...
...idea that tourism inevitably strips off some holiness of place, some magic, may be descended from the primitive conceit that a camera steals the soul of the person photographed. The sacred place (Mount Sinai, Mount Fuji, the Grand Canyon) is an onion, and each new wave of Visigoths with video cameras peels away a layer of mystique, until the magic that drew the stranger in the first place is gone, and instead the tourist finds--other tourists. And with them, the hotels and fast foods and souvenirs and globally identical amenities. A real traveler hates all that...
...eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...