Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eccentrics. She says her more than 20 years covering Texas politics qualifies her to write about American culture because "Texas is like any other place, only more so." Oddly, Ivins, who calls Janet Reno her "fashion goddess," does not see herself as eccentric: "I'm as normal as apple pie; it's other people who are strange...
...Americans who make waitresses laugh and to the ones who pick up litter on the beach, the ones who stop to help the ones who have flat tires, the ones who return wallets, the ones who pick and sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers and the wolf lovers...
...bullies of this summer's box office. Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, the South Park gang and those cutup cowboys Will Smith and Kevin Kline have upended propriety and frolicked like unruly kids until the collective funny bone is virtually numb. After this week's senior-prom sex farce American Pie, even connoisseurs of adolescent comedy may whisper a desperate prayer: "From Austins and Adams and Wild Wild Westies, and teens that go hump in the night, Good Lord deliver...
SAFER SIZZLING It may be as American as apple pie, but barbecuing can also produce cancer-causing compounds. Now there is a tasty alternative. Researchers report that marinating beef before grilling--they chose Hawaiian teriyaki and Indian turmeric-garlic marinades--can reduce carcinogens as much as 67%. The meat was marinated overnight, but researchers think just an hour or two may suffice...
...even Los Angeles, with all its other-worldly glitz and shabby 1920s glamour has some characteristics of Smalltown, U.S.A. Witnessing the hundreds who turned out to watch the fireworks in the stands of Valley College stadium made this cynical place seem a little more apple-pie American. That was until I was informed that both CBS and Paramount were charging admission for their fireworks in other parts of LA. Another reminder that entertainment doesn't come cheap, even on a National Holiday. Maybe Los Angeles is America though, and the archetypes are just that--out-dated non-existent memories...