Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the Maine farmers could say "one potato, two potato," they trailed by another point. Sweeper Peter Sergienko booted a long pass to Keller-Sarmiento who threaded between two fullbacks, drew Brown toward him and slammed the ball into the far side...
Cool as a Baked Potato...
...production savors the visual opportunities of Das Rheingold, wringing it of every bit of spectacle--including towering potato-sack giants. Die Walkure, the best of the four adaptations, flows well musically; Sellars cuts out nearly the entire second act. Though that act, with a 25-minute monologue from Wotan, is the ideological lynchpin of the whole cycle, it rightly is the first to go in a conception of the Ring as entertainment. Walkure also benefits from the absence of Sellars' sometimes-intrusive narration. The presentation races through Siegfried, barely pausing for Siegfried to slaughter a garbage-bag Fafner, and into...
...their feet an instrument case usually lies open. Listeners offer what they can-a few coins, flowers, a can of beer, a potato. A drunk once astonished a Boston musician by removing his trousers and donating them. Best of all are the "silent offerings" (noiseless folding green). The average take is $5 to $10 an hour, but talent and a good location can raise that to $30 or $40, and occasionally more...
...make at least 180-proof ethanol, which is strong enough to power a typical car motor, a home brewer needs only to throw some vegetable matter such as corn, potato peels, even rotten garbage, into a vat. He then adds a couple of commonly available brewer's enzymes (to speed up the conversion of starch into sugar) and some baker's yeast (to bring about the fermentation). After fermentation is complete, which takes less than a week, the mess is dumped into a still, where the alcohol is boiled off. Basically just moon shiner's gear...