Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the Games, an organizer rallied his troops by reminding them, "We should regard even a slice of meat and a piece of tomato as representative of Japan." In fact, though, the Winter Games opened out into a new postnational order in which an athlete named Kyoko skated for the U.S. and a Dusty tended goal for Japan (while Sweden's Ulf Samuelsson was forced off the team when it was found he carried a U.S. passport too and so was no longer technically Swedish). Dutchmen turned the M-Wave speed-skating arena into a province of Holland with their...
...Warning!" blares the dessert menu, threatening addiction to the treats that range in price from three to five dollars. While some may choose the peanut butter pie dressed with a drizzle of European chocolate, the Slice O' Skippy leaves something to be desired. Perhaps if the dry, dense Chocolate Bourbon Cake was mixed with it, the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup effect could redeem both...
...telling him that the project would move forward. Martinez claims "there was never a deal," but a week after he came out in favor of the now dormant fast-track bill, the Federal Highway Administration green-lighted the 4.5-mile project. At $311 million a mile, the freeway would slice through historic areas of South Pasadena and the largely Latino community of El Sereno, displacing 1,000 homes. Moreover, just as the highway suddenly acquired Clinton's backing, the Administration was pulling the plug on Los Angeles' subway funding...
...Council presidents of our world. Or maybe they aren't particularly distinguished in anything at all, but chance throws them onto the front page of the paper again and again. Maybe they streaked in Primal Scream, or they were sitting up late in the library and appeared in a "slice-of-life" photo, or they were in line to get into some big event and ended up quoted in a news article somewhere. For us, the ones reading the paper, these people only exist in black and white. We won't see them in class, because they take all their...
...telling him that the project would move forward. Martinez claims "there was never a deal," but a week after he came out in favor of the now dormant fast-track bill, the Federal Highway Administration green-lighted the 4.5-mile project. At $311 million a mile, the freeway would slice through historic areas of South Pasadena and the largely Latino community of El Sereno, displacing 1,000 homes. Moreover, just as the highway suddenly acquired Clinton's backing, the Administration was pulling the plug on Los Angeles' subway funding...