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There are ways, however, in which Comitan is like life back home. I exercise daily at a gym; I eat Quaker Instant Oatmeal; I can have my photos developed in an hour; I can check my e-mail daily. American marketing is everywhere. Coca-Cola (a.k.a. "Coca") and Pepsi have made inroads to even the most remote towns--towns which still do not have running water. (I even visited a Mayan village where the bubbly has been incorporated into a sacred healing ceremony.) If you walk through Comitan in the late afternoon, you can hear the loud cheers...
...Buttles blasted a shot over the Quaker netminder Matt Schroeder's right shoulder to give Harvard its biggest win of the year. The sophomore exploded for five goals in the contest, and it appeared that Harvard would have enough scoring potential to be competitive in the conference...
SNAP, CRACKLE, PAY Following Kellogg and Quaker Oats, General Mills just raised cereal prices 2.5%, adding a nickel or dime to boxes of Wheaties and Cheerios. It's a risky move for the industry, what with low grain prices, inflation nonexistent and cereal selling for about $2.85 a box. In the past few years, consumers and investors have punished Kellogg for raising prices; it reported a 30% slide in earnings last week, and its CEO was eased out this year for the poor performance...
Entering a game Harvard trailed 16-13 in the top of the seventh as a pinch runner, Bridich scored the tying run when he bounced Quaker catcher Jeff...
...Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull, protesting, absurdly, "Whoa, whoa, whoa" as if it were kids with a Super Soaker...