Word: peanut
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From the Philippines to the United States. From San Francisco to New York City. From the '70s to the '80s, from jazz to rock, from lumpia (a Filipino dish) to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, from Tagalog (a language native to the Philippines) to English, from assimilation blues to a graceful homecoming. Jessica Hagedorn's new novel, The Gangster of Love, is a book about transition, movement, emigration, immigration and repatriation. Though the title could hardly be sillier or more ungainly--it sounds like an afterhours movie on Cinemax--the book itself is written with wit and style and ultimately...
...year, Thomas, who doesn't drink alcohol, was the official frozen drink maker for a group of friends who vacationed together in Puerto Rico. At first she made the typical concoction of strawberries, ice and vodka, but as the night wore on, the ingredients became more and more bizarre: peanut butter, milk, a strange vegetable paella she found in the refrigerator and then finally a leftover chicken dish with olives, tomatoes and cheese. How did she get her friends to drink this stuff? They were drunk and believed what she said: "I told them, 'It's my secret sauce, secret...
...increasing and incongruous presence of real-world issues. In the past months Melrose has tackled child abuse, outing and now date rape. Message drama has its place on television, but not within the context of a show whose characters utter lines like, "You think I want a life of peanut butter and jelly? I want lobster. I want caviar. I want style." Perhaps the beginning of the end really came toward the climax of this last season, when Amanda had cancer. She didn't seem to lose a strand of hair during her chemo treatments, but she came...
...Researchers find that 95% of kids who develop ALLERGIES TO NUTS--a potentially life-threatening problem--suffer from asthma, eczema or hay fever. They warn children with any of these problems to lay off peanut butter and other nutty foods...
...were average folks who wanted their children to grow up having sat in the front row of Fenway Park, having chased down a wayward foul ball to the cheers of the other fans in the park, having watched baseball on a Thursday afternoon. The only thing missing was a peanut guy who could hurl a bag of nuts across four rows of people with pinpoint accuracy...