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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soup spoon mustard...

Author: By Michael E. Farbiarz, | Title: Dining, Haute-Style | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...soup spoon...

Author: By Michael E. Farbiarz, | Title: Dining, Haute-Style | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

Through work at his parent's dairy and produce farm, Slate honed his entrepreneurial skills at an early age. He delivered butter and eggs by horse and buggy for his mother. And later at Clark, he financed his college education by working as a cook at a local greasy spoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robert I. Slate Dies at age 87 | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Jurassic, the middle period of the dinosaurs' reign, which lasted from 208 million to 144 million years ago. These largest of all dinosaurs include Brontosaurus (an out-of-favor name these days: call them Apatosaurus, or risk correction by a knowledgeable six-year-old). They evidently used their spoon-shaped and pencil-shaped teeth to bite off leaves and twigs, relying, like many modern birds, on gizzard stones to do the actual chewing. Horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, which lived toward the end of the dinosaur era, in the late Cretaceous, had very inefficient jaws. "Their teeth were arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...cube is lined with these enormous glossy hairs. You can't not see it as organic: sea anemone, vagina. And it refers back culturally too, since its obvious predecessor is that icon of oral sex in the Museum of Modern Art, Meret Oppenheim's fur-lined cup and spoon. What happens then to the famous hands-off character of Minimalism -- austere objects fabricated by remote control, factory-made to specifications issued by the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telling An Inner Life | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

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