Word: souped
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...book tells the story of a genetic scientist named Toshiaki Nagashima, who works in a university lab. He and his wife Kiyomi share a breakfast of fried eggs, salted salmon and miso soup with tofu one morning before he heads off to work. Later that day he gets a call informing him that Kiyomi's car has mysteriously veered off the road and crashed into a telephone pole, and that she is now brain dead. From here the story unfolds backward, and clues reveal that something sinister took an interest in Kiyomi and Toshiaki long ago. We learn that Kiyomi...
...typical menu at dinner? Cauliflower soup, kale, tabouleh, and macaroni-and-cheese...
...sign over the entrance to the dining room reads, “Don’t spit in the soup, we?...
...Austria recently.” To Ginsberg, America is Moloch (the semiotic god whose worship entailed human sacrifice, usually of the first-born); and the great minds of Ginsberg’s generation, kicked around by the machine age, looking for “jazz or sex or soup,” are sacrificed to the great American dynamo...
...hallway was lined with television screens that broadcast security camera footage of other parts of the party. "I had a great time," said Joel McHale, the guy who hosts The Soup on the E Network. "I just haven't slept in 24 hours." At around this point in the night, it occurred to me that I had made a horrible mistake in choosing my profession. Then I fell into conversation with an actor and writer. I asked him how he thought the Washington, D.C., crowd compared to the type of party scene one would find in Hollywood. He was both...