Word: stew
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...alone understood the Scriptures. He changed his interpretations at will, while his unsteady flock struggled to keep up. In a tactic common to cult leaders, Koresh made food a tool for ensuring obedience. The compound diet was often insufficient, varying according to the leader's whim. Sometimes dinner was stew or chicken; at other times it might be nothing but popcorn. On their infrequent trips to Waco, cultists could be seen wolfing down packaged cheese in convenience stores. Household and dietary rules at the compound were as changeable as the theology. Koresh established strict bans on sugar and ice cream...
...resolved to allow normalization to proceed. Now Vessey must also try to solve the mystery of the Quang report. And no matter what Vessey concludes, there is a good chance that many Americans, never keen about normalization in the first place, will decide that their old enemies can just stew a while longer...
...Real Kids, Chloe, Malochite, The Barnies, Mr. Cranky, Shaggahs, Fudge Factory and The Teeth on Thursday, Nov. 5 upstairs. Brave New World, Common ailments, and Heavenly Medicated Fairytales on Saturday, Nov. 7 upstairs. 5th Anniversary of Rock-N-roll on Tuesday, Nov. 10 upstairs. Fleshtones, Parade, Hotbox, and Pooka Stew on Thursday, Nov. 5 downstairs. Velvet Crush Dambuilders, Versus and Monsterland on Friday, Nov. 6 downstairs. 360's, Seven League Boots, Paper Squares and Muskellunge on Saturday, Nov. 7 downstairs. John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys on Sunday, Nov. 8 downstairs. Anastasia Screamed on Tuesday, Nov. 10 downstairs...
While not the life of a party, Hillary tends to get into the spirit of an evening. She's the one to "try the new meal -- hippopotamus stew -- or order the blue drink," says television producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Most socializing is done at home, in the kitchen and breakfast room and around the piano. (All three Clintons play the instrument, says Hillary, "but none of us is what you'd call good.") They play Pictionary, Scrabble and a cutthroat card game called Hungarian Rummy...
...shepherd's pies at Mr. and Mrs. Bartley's would more aptly be called beef stew pies--filled with chunks of meat instead of ground beef. At Quincy Market, Kitchens of the Bay State serves gravy-less pies. And the "pie" I bought at a sandwich shop in Kennebunkport, Maine was all smooshed together with peasin a styrofoam cup. Alas...