Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progress of From the Diary of a Snail is all too consistent with the author's snail principles. On the way to almost any point, the reader is likely to get a favorite recipe from Chef Grass (simmered tripe with caraway seeds) or a growling epithet on Hegel: "Thanks to his subtlety, every abuse of state power has to this day been explained as historically necessary." Another snail detour documents the diaspora of the Jews of Grass's native Danzig during World War II. Here the narration seems to match the sinister creeping pace of anti-Semitism...
...peculiarly virulent combination of pretty detail and outright tripe seemed to plague Jim Blum's so-called analysis of the Paris negotiations in The Crimson of January S. Does he really believes that Nixon's resumption of the saturation bombing of Hanoi and Haphong "was based on a "misunderstanding in regard to the definition of victory...
...where love stories belong between the lines. The comic suicide that ends Jules and Jim--Moreau's Katherine driving off an unfinished bridge--is the sort of outrageous gesture that Truffaut cannot even begin to approach in Two English Girls. Simplicity has turned to simple mindedness and tenderness to tripe...
...frank still exerts appeal, but increasingly it has found succulent rivals in every U.S. city. McDonald's burgers (which are expressly forbidden by the franchiser to contain "hearts, lungs, tripe, suet, flavor boosters, preservatives, protein additives, fillers or cereals") have long passed the 6 billion mark in sales. The Near East may never solve its tensions, but American Arabs and Jews agree upon the merits of the felafel - Arabian bread stuffed with beans, salad, pickle, ol ives and sesame sauce. The gyro, a Greek concoction of lamb, tomato and onion, has pre-empted the frankfurter's place...
...surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also suggested that people with Jewish-sounding names, even if they were not Jews, should be encouraged to change them, the better to avoid "a repetition...