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...make it is to take nori, a sea vegetable, spread rice over it evenly, and then put on pickle, egg, spinach, carrot and beef. Then you roll it up like a carpet so that it's a long roll, like a bologna or something, and slice it so you can see the insides...
...some of those other applications now run a close second to game playing. Forty-six percent of the home-computer owners interviewed said they use micros to do accounting or make business forecasts; 46% said they utilize them to teach their children spelling and mathematics. A sizable slice of the sampling, 37%, said they balance their checkbooks or household budgets on the machines. Less than 10% use them to store recipes or count calories...
Fashion shows delimit a small slice of cultural space that a designer can claim and redress as personal property. The fashion press gives the designer title to the territory, and the store buyers advance the loan. Everyone, of course, is staking out real estate in the ozone. Fashion is an arbitrary and slightly irrational concept that needs all the buttressing it can get. Fashion shows not only describe a look, they perpetuate a myth and keep a fantasy airborne. A designer has to be dead sure of himself and certain of his reputation, like Armani, to take the radical step...
School department administrators will have to slice about $3 million from the budget proposal they submitted to Healy earlier this year which included substantial spending increases in some areas...
...sharp edge of grief--the death of a parent, for instance--may slice through one's day-to-day sensibilities. Personal tragedy becomes linked to universal--to war to cruelty, to the inevitability of death it self. Similarly, a supremely wonderful or insightful moment may spark a feeling of simpatico towards humankind in general, a sense that maybe, at that moment a fellow on the other side of the earth is thinking the exact same thought. D. M. Thomas understands these moments, and it is his particular gift to be able, in his writing, to reveal and explore this pulse...