Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cutesier shoppers can sift through a panoply of more specialized cookbooks. Aspiring chefs are invited to cook with Paul Bocuse, Craig Claiborne and Jacques Pepin. Somewhat less continental are the offerings in Richard Simmons' Never Say Diet Cookbook--Simmons urges eaters to forego roast beef and plum pudding for the delights of cheese-less cheesecake. His recipe for "Chilly Cottage Cheese Mold" might lead one to conclude that health fanatics don't really live longer--it just feels that way. Most intriguing is The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a creative veggie cookbook...
...University of Cincinnati's William Lasher remarks, "Slang doesn't get written down, so it doesn't endure. If you do write it down, it gets into the language, and stops being slang." In a maniacally open electronic society, the news and entertainment industries sift hungrily through the culture searching for color, anecdote, personality, uniqueness and, of course, slang. All these items instantly become part of the show. Slang is wonderful entertainment. But its half-life is shorter now. Good slang gets commercial in a hurry, like certain country-music singers...
...5HTP, however, was always in jeopardy. No drug company was interested in developing a drug with such a small market. Van Woert had to buy it at a cost of $2,000 per kg from a biochemical supply house, where it was available for animal experiments, and sift it by hand into capsules. When his grant money ran out, Van Woert could no longer obtain the unapproved substance; nor could Dobkin legally do so. Van Woert's patients had to make do with far less effective medications. For Dobkin, 29, that meant returning to her wheelchair. "When...
...proposal would end an existing requirement that undergraduates studying abroad or at other U.S. schools take at least two courses in their concentration, and it would sift some responsibility for students programs from Harvard departments to Le Faculty...
...emotional arias and the camera's delirious glissandos. Now each has made a film about political kidnaping in a turbulent country-Chile in Missing, Italy in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man-and has approached the subject at a more measured pace. Without the stylistic filigrees, one can undistractedly sift for political meaning. The effect is like curling up late at night with the latest report from Amnesty International: you may have nightmares, but first you will fall asleep...