Word: vegetarians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smiths are not a pretty sight either; maybe that is why only study working-class types appear on their album covers. Four uncharismatic youths from Manchester fronted by an ascetic-looking vegetarian with a voice like a choir boy crossed with Slim Whitman, the Smiths burst out in '84 with music that breathed new life into the pop ballad. Vocalist Morrissey (maybe soon singers will call themselves just Sam or Mary) possesses a voice that floats in and around Johnny Marr's guitar riffs in elegant, almost improvised anxiety. Morrissey's lyrics express the range of human emotions from suicidal...
...colors (orange, red and lilac), the rest of Wasco County has greeted them with an understandable mixture of bemusement, fear and anger. The Rajneeshees have been scouring the country in search of recruits among homeless street people, enticing them to come live on their pastoral spread with promises of vegetarian meals and an unharried atmosphere. While the Rajneeshees have refused to explain their motives in this recruitment drive, their neighbors have come to the not unreasonable conclusion that the aim is to enlarge the Bhagwan's political power. Two of the three Wasco County commissioners will be elected...
Ferraro passed the test, all right. But who benefits from the inquisition? Politicians should be judged by their policies and achievements rather than their private conduct. Robespierre, who sent hundreds to the guillotine, was called "the Incorruptible." Hitler, the nonsmoking, nondrinking vegetarian, always paid his taxes. These admirable characteristics hardly made either man a "good...
...laboratories full of more justly certified savants like Lord Kelvin, the respected British physicist ("X rays are a hoax," circa 1900), and Dr. Linard Williams, medical officer to the Insurance Institute of London, who said in 1932: "If your eyes are set wide apart you should be a vegetarian, because you inherit the digestive characteristics of bovine or equine ancestry...
...Michael is a vegetarian. I mean really a vegetarian. He's the type of vegetarian that hardly eats anything. No fish. No meat. Nuts and grapes and things of that sort and dishes that we have a cook come in to fix. For fun Michael sometimes plays with the llama he has here and he invites all the relatives, the kids. He has a popcorn machine-you've seen those oldtime popcorn wagons on wheels you can walk up to and pop corn. That's what he does. He pops the corn for the kids...