Word: spaghetti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conversations. But what about all the little interactions, the unintended ones? A person is unlikely to remember the guy whose toes he crushed as he squeezed his way into lecture late, or the girl who groaned behind him in the lunch line as he carefully selected individual strands of spaghetti, or the student he interrupted to make a comment in class. Yet to each of those people, he has just defined himself as inconsiderate, selfish and irritating. And if he interrupts the same student again, or if the same person lands behind him twice during his little spaghetti ritual, then...
...Dellio's success that Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's The Windup Bird Chronicle, a hefty 611 page work of near genius, probably won't get the attention that it deserves. Although it spans a comparatively short six months in 1984, beginning with a Japanese thirty-something making a spaghetti breakfast to the beat of Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie," The Windup Bird Chronicle is a noirish, tragi-comic epic worthy of its own praise dictionary. From a bizarre story of the thirty-something's marital and spiritual crisis, Murakami's novel kaleidoscopes out into an exploration of post-WWII Japan...
...when he turned to the portal that led to Soyuz in order to begin prepping the ship, he was brought up short by the spaghetti of cables and ducts that confronted him. These are the umbilicals that carry power and air from Mir to Soyuz. To free up the spacecraft, Foale would first have to remove them all and switch the ship over to internal power...
Flowing easily through a series of hauntingly imagined passages, the story is told by Toru Okada, a guy in his 30s, out of a job, cheerfully bewildered and wandering around in a "yellow Van Halen promotional T-shirt." One day, as he's cooking spaghetti, his life suddenly falls through a rabbit hole of sorts. Spooky strangers call up with cryptic messages, women named Nutmeg and Malta enfold him in weird schemes, his wife disappears, and another woman appears in her clothes and in his bed. Reality plays like a TV program--but one showing on a channel Toru doesn...
...road." There are a few surprises on Be Here Now; at some points, Oasis cribs from bands other than the Beatles. Much of the album is informed by the crunching blues-rock of the Rolling Stones. One of the worst songs, however, draws from a less impressive source: the spaghetti-western-style guitar work on Fade In-Out echoes Jon Bon Jovi's rock gunslinger song Wanted Dead or Alive...