Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Down where the students sit, we are served a putrid-looking salad and a thin slice of turkey in gelatinous broth. Dishes of boiled peas and potatoes are plopped down onto the table, and students grab at them, shoving these shared portions of the meal onto their plates. Often, the potatoes and peas run out before all students get a share. There is clearly a class division here...
...Some years back, a film critic observed that the problem with summer pictures wasn't that they were bad movies; it was that they were the same bad movie. But more than ever this summer, with the moguls at the sausage factories sending out a new slice of action salami each week--The Lost World: Jurassic Park, followed by Con Air, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Batman & Robin, Face/Off and Men in Black--the big films look like instant remakes, retreads or reductios ad absurdum of last Friday's film, which wasn't all that hot either. Some of the movies...
...lungs will be in worse shape when I cross the Atlantic again, but so will my arteries. On my second night in Budapest, I digested a traditional Hungarian meal of cabbage stuffed with meat accompanied by a small black sausage, a slice of pork and a hunk of fat from an undetermined animal. The entire dish was sitting in deep red oil half-an-inch thick, and the cabbage was topped with sour cream...
...food has one thing going for it: the price. Thanks to constant devaluation of the Hungarian Forint, the dollar goes a long way here along the Danube. A slice of pizza costs 50 cents; a 0.2-liter bottle of Coke is about 25 cents; hefty hero sandwiches are $1; ice cream--available in dozens of flavors in little carts on every street--is about 20 cents a scoop...
Gates was surprised to learn that such a statement would be cheap: $1 billion could buy about 11% of Comcast. (A similar slice of his company would cost $18 billion.) Roberts soon returned to Seattle with his investment banker Steven Rattner, the newly elevated deputy CEO of Lazard Freres in New York City. Like Roberts and Gates, Rattner is a low-key baby boomer with an intense interest in media and technology. On a Tuesday morning, four weeks after the dinner, Gates and Greg Maffei, Microsoft vice president for corporate development, went to Rattner's suite at the Woodmark Hotel...