Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Considering the fickleness of the American palate and the competition for food dollars, it is no wonder that 1986 saw so many trendy flashes in the pan, as well as on the plate. California and Southwest cuisines, so much in vogue last January, have already begun to pall. As the year ended, lip service was being paid to such buzz words as country, peasant, cuisine bourgeoise and even meat and potatoes. Meanwhile, freshness took on new meaning as lazy cooks opted for unfrozen, simmer-in-bag prepared dishes. And with rabbit the In meat of the year, the most worried...
...baseball is a magical sport. Every one of us has fantasized about being on the mound, or at the plate, or in the field in the middle of that crucial game that will decide the pennant...
...shops offer 450 items, ranging from a $1.25 heart-shaped pen to a $100 crystal plate, and the airport location guarantees captive high-income customers. Foreign travelers seem to appreciate that members of the sales staff speak seven languages, from French to Chinese. If sales at the Express Shops take off, Bloomingdale's plans to open stores at other airports, both in the U.S. and abroad...
...that sounds like traditional blues territory, the next two songs (written by Album Producer Dennis Walker) find fresh ground. I Guess I Showed Her is the lament of a prideful lover who took his leave too soon ("Room 16 ain't got no view, but/ The hot plate's brand new./ I guess I showed her"), and Right Next Door (Because of Me) is a reflective apology sung by the kind of guy who usually doesn't say he's sorry: "She was right next door, and I'm such a strong persuader./ She was just another notch...
Despite her little learning, Ellen is something of a student of the language. She ponders little oddities of British speech: "I wonder why everything always has to be nice, a nice cup of tea, a nice plate of bread and butter." Not surprisingly, the term brothel attracts her attention: "That is a terrible word and yet also a funny word, kind of domestic in a way, it always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with...