Word: mushroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...References: The Codes of Culture making fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest to the new century...
...insight. In References: The Codes of Culturemaking fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest to the new century...
...nation has a split personality when it comes to consumption and the results of that consumption. We are constantly bombarded by mixed messages. Scrawny, undernourished models peek out from billboards adjacent to giant signs announcing the return of Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt. We are told to "Have it your way!" "Super size it!" and "Obey your thirst!" But mixed in with the chorus of "Consume, consume!" are the plaintive cries to "Stop the insanity!" Is it any surprise we wash down our Big Macs with Diet Cokes? The only people satisfying the insatiable needs of the capitalist machine...
...Portobello mushroom...
...Portobello mushroom...