Word: soybeans
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...Gray describes the monologue, his 13th, as being "about a man who can't write a book about a man who can't take a vacation." Monster in a Box is both brilliant and funny, expertly combining Freud's intellectualism with the scatological humor involved in recounting a total soybean diet--which Gray once experienced while depressed in Houston...
...short term is not too rosy either. The U.S. corn and soybean crops are currently suffering from a severe drought in the Midwest. And, for a variety of reasons, poor harvests are predicted this year in China, India and the Soviet Union...
Rabbit is even awed by the ingredients on his favorite brand of corn chips. "Corn, vegetable oil, (contains one or more of the following oils: peanut, cottonseed, corn partially hydrogenated soybean), salt." These, of course, are all "absolutely nots" for an overweight, 56-year old man who just got out of the hospital for angioplasty. "Doesn't sound so bad," Rabbit says lackadaisically before eating the whole...
...blended totally with the bankers and industrialists. "Gorbachev is old friends with more than half the people here," whispered one guest as he watched him clap the arm of NBC's Tom Brokaw (who interviewed him for U.S. television) and wring the hand of Dwayne Andreas, the world's soybean king, who sells the Soviets millions in beans and grains each year...
When Raymond Dunn Jr. was born 15 years ago, he had an undersize brain, was severely retarded and was allergic to all foods except one -- Gerber Meat- Based Formula. Designed for babies who could not tolerate foods based on cows' milk, the product was canceled in 1985, when soybean formulas displaced it. That threatened disaster for Raymond, who still could not eat anything else. His mother Carol Dunn of Yankee Lake, N.Y., made an appeal to Gerber...