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...medieval on: (v.) to get brutal and violent, popularized by Pulp Fiction...
Captain James Cook saw a lot of strange things when he was exploring Polynesia in 1769, but the virgins chewing kava brought him up short. After pulling the plant's root out of the ground, island girls worked it over in their mouths, reducing it to a pulp, then spit the whole mess into coconut milk. The mixture was then strained through fibers, collected in a bowl and consumed by the tribe at large. Cook's men found the practice distasteful, but what did they know? Kava, after all, had been a popular tonic in the South Seas...
...recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, a book reviewer found the Starr report to be not just a pulp page turner but a haunting allegory. The report symbolizes "the national invasion of our privacy." The moral of its story: what happened to President Clinton "could happen to any of us--our own sex lives on newsstands everywhere...
...call for a study comes as the pulp and paper industry shifts its center of production from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast...
...predicts a three- to four-fold increase in plantation forestry over the next three to four decades due to a surge in demand for pulp and paper...