Word: syrup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although cuts in Government research grants will reduce the level of that particular excellence in the years the come. American medicine, biology and physics lead the world. American politicians (that least excellent breed) may be better educated, more honest and industrious - more excellent - than ever. Vermont maple syrup is excellent. American agriculture is excellent. Ted Hood's sails are excellent. American telephone service is excellent. American professional sports would be excellent if they were not so drenched in greed. Look abroad: the French language is excellent. Some would argue that the entire country of Switzerland is excellent (if somewhat...
...oblong lollipops that bend into curious little cow licks after they've been in your mouth for a white. I remember a commercial for Sugar Daddies that used to be on TV. In showed a vat powering--and it seemed like it would poor eternally--the thick golden brown syrup that eventually hardened into the lollipops. On Golden Pond is a lot like that. You walk out feeling like someone has poured thick sugar syrup all over you. Of course, that need not be so had, I like an occasional Sugar Daddy. But the experience is still awfully fully sticks...
...decades when it is within our power to do something about the conditions, or at least within our power not to support the oppressors, says much for the underdeveloped soul of this country. All we can offer, too little and always too late, are the mild reforms, cough syrup for the patient with double pneumonia. In El Salvador that cough syrup has been "land reform," the supposed distribution of the country's acreage to the peasants who farm it. Rammed down the throats of the Duarte regime by American officials desperate for some improvements to point to, land reform...
WOMEN CAN BE VERY FRIGHTENING. Sometimes I panic in the middle of talking to them, sometimes I can't even get that far. Sex is too complicated, relationships too difficult. I'm losing touch with my fellow man; I have an urge that creeps like chocolate syrup up my pant legs when I see a woman I can't have: to take out a big bowie knife and cut and cut. I go to the movies instead. I loved Halloween. That was a hell of a good movie, all the aggression at the heart of every horror film distilled into...
...trace of a tan or of West Coast show-biz gloss. She bounces into a magazine photo session, wearing a dime-store sun dress and dark glasses held together by a safety pin. She is a fan of egg creams (a New York soft drink made of seltzer, chocolate syrup, milk and, of course, no eggs), and a resolute rider of subways; if the middle class and the rich don't use the subways, she argues, they will continue to fall apart and so will her beloved city. Streep is a liberal who is outraged by the Reaganauts in Washington...