Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascination with herbs-plants valued for specific medicinal, culinary or aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please the nostril, are enjoying a luxuriant comeback in city stores and country herb farms. Then too there are tens of thousands of private herb gardens...
...Priestley, 80, whose acerbic novels of British working-class life go back over half a century, sets his SALT IS LEAVING (Harper & Row; 247 pages; $6.95) in contemporary England. The spice of the title is a wordy, forty-fivish general practitioner anxious to pull out of provincial Birkden as soon as he can track down a vanished patient. Noreen Wilkes is certain to die if she goes without treatment for a rare kidney disease. She has been missing for three weeks when Dr. Salt goes to the police convinced that Miss Wilkes has been murdered. Next, the impeccably respectable...
...same vein. Michel has painful difficulty marketing his film--his coarse and obese producer, between puts on a cheap cigar, urges him to spice it up with a few deaths, since no one is interested in live Jews these days. Returning from his interview at the studio. Michel rescues a young student who has been beaten by the police at a demonstration and helps him escape, largely because of his childhood experiences as a fugitive. Unable to understand his rescuer, the student mocks the study of film making as an occupation and needless Michel incessantly about his "bourgeois" life style...
Looking ahead to next week, the From Foundation will present its usual collection of first birthdays with 1974 compositions of by Donald Sur and Earl Kim of the Music Faculty. And without any birthdays to spice up their program, the talented Cantata Singers will perform works of Bach and Stravinsky on Wednesday...
...been discovered in varying degrees that all this sexual spice leads to less satisfaction," Etzioni told a news conference during a session on human sexuality at an American Association for the Advancement of Science convention