Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these chefs rely on the same enviable sources. They may shop at the festive Pike Place Market or buy directly from free-lance foragers who search out wild weeds, berries and mushrooms in nearby fields and woods. Another source is the small boutique farms sponsored by the chefs for raising game birds and organically fed animals. For salads, shopping lists may include some attractive exotic entries: lovage, hyssop, yarrow, vetch, pansies, nasturtiums, fava bean blossoms and shepherd's purse...
Many of Prestowitz's observations are firsthand, since he has lived in or visited Japan many times over the past 24 years. He studied the Japanese language at Keio University in Tokyo and later helped manage a Swiss executive-search firm in Japan. Trading Places is especially full of fresh anecdotes and information gleaned from his industry contacts. He reports, for example, that IBM last year offered important technology to a leading competitor, Digital Equipment, rather than allow Digital to become more dependent on Japanese suppliers. The book also shows how President Reagan did not get too excited about trade...
...though, they boldly go where just about everyone has gone before, into the realm of romantic fantasy. You could say this film is It's a Wonderful Life as told by an angel tired of earning his wings. But it's lots else. It's a fable about the search to reconcile knowing with feeling, purity with experience. It's the story of any man shackled by the expectation of perfection and aching to caress the soft curves of domestic danger. It's also a beguiling metaphor for the dilemma of the novelist or filmmaker who, omnipotently, creates his characters...
Vorenberg's resignation in the summer of 1989 has left enough time for a thorough and exhaustive search by President Bok for a replacement. Yet the timing also raises a thorny question: what will happen to the Law School for the next year and a half. Power struggles and coalition voting have already been the norm and will surely intensify under a lame duck dean. The Law School needs direction soon, and Vorenberg's delayed resignation until next year will only make answers harder to find...
...Princeton professor late last month accepted a post in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, ending a four-year search to fill the empty chair, faculty members said yesterday...