Word: spaghetti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McInerney's acuteness as a social critic remains intact (a late '70s dinner party is said to have taken place "just before spaghetti became pasta"), as does his occasionally tart way with language. Impressive too is the quiet way in which Patrick, the narrator, finally comes to terms with his conflicting drives. There is a surprising modesty here at the end of this clamorous and overreaching book, a frank conservatism that is close to daring in a work of contemporary fiction...
...another argument, you say that the word is unwiedly. So are the words spaghetti and Massachusetts. Perhaps we shouldn't use those to describe the noodle or the state. I simply suggest that you try a little harder, and maybe you will soon be able to pronounce "first-year" quite handily. I have no difficulties, and willing to be your speech coach if you do not soon meet with success...
...Buchanan is a descendant of Scottish-Irish and German blood, and lived just about all his life in Washington, where, until 15 or 20 years ago, international cuisine meant tomato sauce on a plate of spaghetti...
...door to the secretary of state's office and asked where he could register to run for President. Dressed in stiff new blue jeans, work boots and a windbreaker, Dass sat down at the desk to fill out N.H. form 655:47. Out of an empty Mueller's spaghetti box, he plucked a $1,000 check. A reporter from the Manchester Union Leader pulled out a pad and asked Dass why he was running. "No one appreciates the press more than I do," said Dass, who is intense and deadly serious, "but I'm not going to take any questions...
...said the benefits of tomatoes came from several forms: sauce, juice, raw and even when cooked into pizza. Spaghetti sauce was the most common tomato-based food eaten by the men in the study group...