Word: paler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entertained the depressive thought that they had ceased to be themselves. The nation was taken over by Others. In the current recrystallization, Americans are asserting their past, their myths, their freedoms. They think of immigrants and New York Harbor and Ellis Island. But they fetch back, too, to a paler, sweeter image --in Robert Lowell's verse, "Main Street's shingled mansards and square white frames/ date from Warren G. Harding back to Adams./ old life! America's ghostly innocence...
...different results. Beefalo from Healey's Market in Manchester, Vt., was slightly richer, more flavorful and moister than comparable cuts from Chenango Beefalo in Greene, N.Y. Although neither example of beefalo matched Brae, both were certainly adequate. Steaks cooked rare were the most successful cuts, even though they were paler in color, milder in flavor and a bit tougher than Brae. Stews were barely acceptable. Roasts, however, were much too dry because the meat lacked the fat to keep them supple...
...merely white, Bird is a paler shade of paste. As a moment of silence descends over him at the foul line, a youthful voice calling out from a courtside row can be heard in the mezzanine: "Larry Bird, why are you so white?" Bird laughs later. "It's amazing. I guess I'm a white superstar in a black man's game, but it's open to all colors." Sometimes from exertion he turns a flamingo shade of pink. Perching on one leg at nearly every pause in the game, he compulsively rubs and preens the tops and bottoms...