Word: turnips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also -- despite his often repeated claim to reject tradition absolutely -- paying complete homage to an earlier French artist: Honore Daumier, whose tiny clay effigies of politico-literary notables known as Les Celebrites du Juste-Milieu, wizened, compressed and distorted, are the obvious and inescapable grandfathers of all Dubuffet's turnip...
...takes us touncharted gastronomic territory. When I thinkabout the food I miss from home; I recall imagesof my daily suppers at Aunt Bessie's house. Ifonly in my mind, I can see the hot cornbread or"mixed" bread, rice and gravy, greens of all kinds(usually collard, mustard or turnip), friedchicken and, yes, chitlins...
Total outlays this year -- covering such things as housing, space, transportation, energy and education -- will be a relatively small $216 billion. Under the you-can't-get-blood-from-a-turnip rule, the savings here would be relatively small. If the Department of Energy's controversial, big- ticket superconducting supercollider were canceled, for example, it would save only about $200 million next year and between $2 billion and $3 billion over five years...
...calmed, there is a renewed taste for homey -- and less expensive -- staples of the past. Put plainly, the croissant is out and the doughnut is in, and the same goes for restaurant fare. At some haughty spots like New York City's four-star Le Cirque, the humble turnip is increasingly turning up in soups and as a side dish. Addio, radicchio...