Word: rinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canning the tomato is the triumph of the ego, the suppression of the natural, the inexorable advance of civilization. Technology has found a way to "cook" the tomato without shriveling it to an inedible rind. One simply puts the dangerous natural tomato into a can. Magically it is civilized, it is cooked. Now take it out of the can and it is "safe" to eat the tomato...
...Conerico Was Here to Stay, by Frank Gagliano, gives another squeeze to that rind of a man, the antihero. He shows the standard stigmata-conformity, terror, absence of identity, lack of responsibility and commitment-yet after he is stranded on a Manhattan subway platform, the vulnerable humanity of Mark Gordon's expressively modulated performance makes one care about him. Gagliano has a gift for capturing the acrid flavor and jagged tempo of the city's mental and physical derangements. A blind man, his white stick rattling frenetically, goes into a convulsive attack of "the crazies" as the city...
...such synthetic juices as General Foods' Tang, they have been experimenting with dried citrus crystals that can be mixed with water to make juice, are now selling them to the Armed Forces. Growers are also turning out a line of citrus byproducts, including paint bases refined from rind...
Surrounding it is a dense, many-layered rind of preface, commentary and index, compiled by a scholarly ass named Charles Kinbote. This obtuse fellow imagines himself to have been a great friend of Shade's. Actually, as is absurdly and delightfully evident after a few pages, Kinbote knew the old poet for only a few months, and their friendship consisted of bare toleration on Shade's side...
...this heat, forming the oceans of water or ammonia into which the falling molecules (formed at the impressive rate of ten pounds per square mile per year) dissolve. This process, says Sagan, "would create the conditions necessary for complex pre-biological organic reactions." By his reckoning, Jupiter's rind may not be icy at all, and its surface temperature (70° F.) may be balmy enough to support the same evolutionary process that on earth led from molecules...