Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bugs to buzz forth last week, the insects became the talk of the town. As if the prospect of stepping on them were not revolting enough, University of Chicago ecology professor Monte Lloyd is urging people to eat them. Says he: "They are quite good, like avocado and new potato mixed." A sample recipe: dip cicadas in batter and fry until golden brown. Serve with cocktail sauce or sour cream, or use as a pizza topping...
...this is the last lap of the 20th century. Old values are exhausted, and new styles are hitting their stride. This is true even in Primrose Hill, where Harry, an old-fashioned ladies' man and pub potato, is drawn into the messy lives of friends and family. Brother Freddie, "a poet of the '50s in the sense that his career was almost totally confined to the years 1958-59," has been sexually recharged by modern medicine. Son Piers is a wastrel and dodgy lodger at his father's house. Ex-stepdaughter Bunty is a lesbian, and niece ) Fiona an alcoholic...
Make no mistake, not even the most credulous couch potato believes that, say, 16-year-old Doogie Howser, M.D., is for real. But the easy affluence that is the birthright of Doogie's family might seem representative enough, especially when on the following ABC show (The Marshall Chronicles) the TV father was dressed in a tuxedo for an evening of Manhattan night life. Despite the pseudo-lower-middle- class realism of Roseanne and Married with Children, the implicit message in much of prime time remains almost effortless economic entitlement. For while most of the nation resides in what bicoastal types...
IOWA is not the potato state...
...nation's most restrictive abortion law. Passed two weeks ago by the Idaho senate, the bill would have outlawed virtually all abortions. Pro-choice groups threatened to boycott Idaho potatoes if the bill became law. The Washington headquarters of the National Organization for Women received spuds inscribed by pro-lifers: "Please take care of me. I am an aborted Idaho potato...