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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...globes are awkward to carry around. And no matter what gimmick is used, drawing the surface of a sphere on a flat plane results in distortion. Anyone who tries to flatten the whole peel of an orange can imagine the difficulty. The features of a globe cannot be transferred accurately to a flat map. If the shapes of continents are correct, the sizes are wrong; a system that is accurate at the equator is hopeless at the poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Shape of the World | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

Mike Greenwell could twist his ankle while running up the stairs of his hotel tonight. Wade Boggs could slip on a bannana peel. Lee Smith could go on a pizza-eating marathon three innings before he faces a basesloaded, no-out situation...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Beware the Ghosts of Fenway | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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