Word: souring
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...janis and otis and manson and lieutenant calley, not to mention spiro agnew and the flowering of bread and roses. some of it is pretty funny, I'll grant you that, and some of it is even sweet, in the way only you can be sweet, (like sweet and sour pork or a marguerita) but in all honesty most of it is pretty tiresome. maybe it makes about as much sense as the rest of our lives over the last six years but maybe it makes less sense less well. it gets tiresome always to be in your dreams, dylan...
...Break out the crying towels and sour-grape wine for U.S. business. For years, while we were squeezing the life out of foreign nations, no one complained. Now the U.S. is learning of its own tactics from Japan-and the tears start...
...selects his tigers just as carefully. He buys them young, prefers that they be jungle-born; those born in captivity, he says, usually undergo enough rough handling to sour their dispositions. His tigers are taught through food reward, praise and tone of voice: "It's not important what you say to them. It's the tone and the way it's said. I call them by name, speak in a certain voice, and they know what I mean. They each have a different personality...
...Marine guards reportedly used to beat hog-tied inmates, the brig population has been halved to less than 500, and a new $2,500,000 facility will open in August. Captain Sam Saxton, an assistant warden, has helped improve the guards' caliber. "When we see a guard going sour," says Saxton, "he's out of here in 72 hours...
...cooks. They concocted trick buns that squirted, fitted wings to cooked hares in order to impersonate Pegasus, and rigged dining-room ceilings to rain flowers. Every meal a production number. But the recipes themselves, Miss Pullar maintains, have been underestimated by culinary historians. She favorably compares Roman sweet-and-sour contrasts with Chinese cooking, their well-sauced meats with Creole dishes...