Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kinky images? Some think it is nothing more than a scream for attention from photographers and editors who find their audiences increasingly difficult to shock. Alex Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast publications, considers it "just an experiment with something new, a trend, a moment of spice." Feminists take a darker view. "Men are feeling guilty and sexually threatened," says Cambridge, Mass., Teacher Jean Kilbourne, who lectures on the influence of the communications industry. "The image of the abused woman is a logical extension of putting the uppity woman in her place." Many psychiatrists agree that the trend reflects...
...Brews. As rising coffee prices break through the $3-per-lb. barrier, consumers are eying all kinds of exotic substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick...
...over 30 years I have gambled on everything from a pin to an elephant and have never won a sausage. I still keep having a go. There is certainly a spice of life in the gambling flutter...
...Just for spice, throw in some colorful players, like the four freshmen who won starting jobs on the 'Cliffe squad, led by Sarah Mleczko, who scored more than half the team's goals in the first six games. Stir in something for body and character, like seniors Karen Linsley and captain Ann Dupuis, responding to the opportunity of the first winning season of their careers by playing like maniacs...
...festival did try to add a touch of spice, which seems to have become de rigueur since Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris stirred things up four years ago. But this year's offering, In the Realm of the Senses, directed by Japan's Nagisa Oshima, was impounded by U.S. customs officials after they viewed it at a press screening. Nobody seemed to mind much, which probably had less to do with indifference to civil liberties than with general embarrassment over the quality of the film. In the Realm of the Senses is like the customs...