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...Peddling the Pomegranate Although it's a challenge to eat the raw fruit without getting a mouthful of seeds and astringent pith, pomegranates are everywhere now in the form of juice, concentrates and extracts, all heavily promoted for better health...
...Peddling the Pomegranate Although it's a challenge to eat the raw fruit without getting a mouthful of seeds and astringent pith, pomegranates are everywhere now in the form of juice, concentrates and extracts, all heavily promoted for better health...
...popularity. Creator Judge's Beavis was the antidream, embodied in two MTV-watching cretins with a taste for dirty jokes ("Heh heh heh. You said unit"). The cartoons--40 of them selected here--satirized '90s teen culture while snidely trashing music videos. TV rarely critiques itself with such pith. Heh heh heh. I said pith...
...last illness makes her vulnerable enough for an audience to like, despite the verbal savagery that she hurled at almost everyone she knew. The decision to present Hellman in a two-hour monologue provides a further emotional advantage: because her targets are not visible, spectators can savor the pith and vinegar of her language rather than cringe at its impact on the victims...
American writers are chock-full of homespun originality and pith. How to account for the dreck produced by American students? I don’t think it’s our fault; it’s what they do to us. Faulkner said that writing is about killing your darlings. When we write papers, we slaughter our ancestors and submit ourselves to sterilization. I wish someone had taken me aside during Freshman Week and told me then what I have since learned the hard way: that the fundamental principle of paper-writing consists in saying things that sound vaguely familiar...