Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What I remember most about my mother was that she was always beating me. She'd beat me with her high-heeled shoes, with my father's belt, with a potato masher. When I was eight, she black-and-blued my legs so badly, I told her I'd go tell the police. She said, 'Go, they'll just put you into the darkest prison.' So I stayed. When my breasts started growing at 13, she beat me across the chest until I fainted. Then she'd hug me and ask forgiveness. When...
...Potato, Two Potato (1274 Mass Ave) The jury is still out on One P. Two P. a wood paneled modern bar/restaurant which, depending on who you ask, is either a fun place to go or a pseudo-artificial hangout. If you side with the former, One Potato offers a great view of the action on Mass. Ave As you watch the people walk by, try the Bloody Mary ($2 10) served in a large glass measuring...
...midnight and you're hungry; you have four options. None will excite the excite taste buds much but cheese streaks and potato chips have a way of getting better as the night extends into morning. And, besides, it's probably four more options than you would have if you were in Ithaca and you faced that same evening hunger and that same empty refrigerator...
...pouch used by campers. Aseptics may change American packaging in the '80s the way plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming as commonplace as potato chips and soggy sandwiches. Says Dick Ponte, a vice president of Stop & Shop, a supermarket chain: "We're having trouble keeping them on the shelves...
...women who do appear are simple farm laborers gathering up a potato crop. In rigid lines and soulless silence, they move forward, whisking loose dirt from the potatoes and tossing them into baskets. They are harrowing illustrations from Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe: "Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop...