Word: soft
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Gone are the days when buying your daily bread simply meant tossing a cotton- soft white loaf into a grocery cart. More and more shoppers these days are trekking to local bakeries and specialty shops -- often braving long lines and empty bins -- in search of gourmet loaves of all sizes and shapes: rosemary, garlic and poppy wands with a crackling-hard crust; dense bricks dotted with specks of flax, sunflower and sesame seeds; onion sourdough baguettes; and mammoth 4-lb. pumpkin-like affairs made from live, wild cultures. "Bread is being rescued from oblivion," says Michael London, owner of Rock...
Perhaps today's youth is unshockable. And perhaps that fact should be shocking. "One of the things we all seek," says Clive Barker, "is the visionary experiences we had as children. We seem to have forgotten that those experiences are not soft and gentle, but often harsh and intense." For several American generations, a child's first entertainment experience was a Disney cartoon, with its wrenching traumas of betrayal, abandonment, a mother's death. An animated film could thrill a child to pieces or scare him near to death. And it introduced him to the beautiful and frightening banquet...
Finally, the College should reform the celebrations surrounding Commencement to gear them toward families of modest means. The senior clambake ("Lobster or prime rib, clams, corn soft drinks, beer and more!" my schedule announces,) costs $25 per plate. For the nuclear family of two parents, two children and a pair of grandparents, this meal adds another $150 to the already substantial cost of Commencement...
...envoys. Angered by the U.S. refusal to dispatch Kelly, the IJLP issued a new statement, this time accompanied by a photograph of Polhill. The group announced that it had decided to "postpone this operation until the picture is cleared." Perhaps to dispel speculation that it had gone soft, it also threatened to attack airports and airlines involved in Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to Israel...
...Saint Brown," as he is known by his opponents, became Australia's most notorious environmentalist. During the seven-year battle to save the river, he was robbed, shot at and set upon by thugs. The mailbox of his spartan weatherboard cottage was stuffed with animal entrails. But his soft-spoken message of peace and planetary conservation prevailed, and the dam was scuttled in 1983. Briefly jailed for barring the path of a bulldozer, Brown was elected to the Tasmanian parliament the day after his release -- one of five "green" M.P.s who hold the balance of power in Australia's smallest...