Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cars, tires, soup and other items have been pulled off the market for reasons of consumer safety. But rarely, if ever, has an entire industry had to deal with the problem faced by the makers of tampons: a product that is widely used, worth tens of millions in sales and profits, and is now shadowed by concern about possible disease-causing properties...
...Blacksmith, however, Schepisi imbues his simple close-ups with increasing echoes of horror. Slowly these scenes draw the audience into an ever-widening circle of violence. Sometimes the scenes are frightening. Sometimes not. It is the randomness one fears. One cannot hear a baby scream, or watch someone mixing soup for dinner, without feeling tinges of menace. One begins to feel the randomness, the undercurrents which one tries so hard to ignore...
...workers have asked, he made it clear that his own priorities are more political than economic. "We are aware of what we are demanding," he said. "We don't want to drown Poland. We want to rebuild her. I am willing to work for a plate of soup a day, but I must feel that I have the right to say something about the situation...
...down there with whites . . ." The interrelation of men and menus has filled hundreds of texts. But none of them have digested so many facts so well. Wittily, the authors explain why Muslims eschew pork (pigs would have been an ecological disaster in the Middle East) and why chicken soup -so-called Jewish penicillin-really does help to cure a cold (it comforts nasal passages). They show why Chinese drink no milk, discuss the Aztec hunger for human flesh (people who ate people were the victims of protein deficiency) and explain why Africa's Bemba society would collapse into chaos...
...fact is that Britain is plunging into a deep recession, and the likelihood of a bitter winter ahead. Unemployment has reached 1.9 million, or 7.8% of the work force, the highest since the soup-kitchen days of the 1930s; it now seems inevitable that by next year the figure will rise to 2.5 million. Complaints are pouring in from businessmen as well as union chiefs. In its quarterly report released last week, the Confederation of British Industry painted what one business leader called "as gloomy a picture as it is possible for anyone to paint." Says Len Murray, general secretary...