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...called fat-free fat, which passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed and thus adds no fat and no fat calories to food, can be used only in savory snacks, like potato chips, crackers and tortilla chips. The data, explains FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "demonstrate reasonable certainty of no harm in certain snack foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAT-FREE FAT | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...novel, The Tortilla Curtain (Viking; 355 pages; $23.95), botches a good theme: the shuddering distaste of California's patio-living Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. His pale hero is Delaney, a nature writer who has moved with his wife Kyra, a real estate shark, to a housing development above Topanga Canyon. Delaney is not just politically correct, he's politically exquisite, but when a Mexican man, Candido, blunders in front of his white Acura on a canyon road, his reaction is angry revulsion: the wounded wet back, to whom he gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SNOBS AND WETBACKS | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II (Doubleday; $35), represents the latest scholarly attempt to meld science and faith. Too often over the centuries, Meier admits, the Catholic Church was taken in by charlatans. When reports spread of statues weeping or crosses bleeding or Jesus appearing on a tortilla, the church is often slow to respond, fearful that the search for a sign will distract from the hard work of faith. "There is a fascination with macabre aspects of religion," Meier explains, "but fascination is the enemy of true faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MESSAGE OF MIRACLES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...should have seen it coming," says Richards. Replies Cuomo: "Maybe so, but now I think we ought to accept this change, embrace it, be positive about it, because change can be very exciting." It emerges that the duo is gabbing about nothing weightier than a new, improved Doritos Tortilla Chips package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBODY MUNCHES BETTER | 1/26/1995 | See Source »

...Georgian Ballmom. They ate grilled Cajun chicken breast in a cream sauce, beef and vegetable kabobs and rumaki--which consists of a piece of chicken liver and a slice of a water chestnut, wrapped in bacon. Snickers had the opportunity to give on blue, red, and yellow tortilla chips, gus-camole, black bees sales, tomato sales, cheese, crackers, vegetables and dips...

Author: By Compiled JEFFREY N.s. gell, | Title: Better Than a Party At the Currier 10-Man | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

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