Word: sushi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel electronic gadgets ranging from computer-controlled air conditioners to golf-swing analyzers. The concept of fuzziness has struck a cultural chord in a society whose religions and philosophies are attuned to ambiguity and contradiction. Says Noboru Wakami, a senior researcher at Matsushita: "It's like soy sauce and sushi -- a perfect match...
Cajun food may come and go, the sushi market may bottom out--the face of Mass. Ave., though, is sure to be different...
...blame for the moral defoliation of the '80s, / they deserve some recognition for their redemption. "We're trying to break the cycle of you get up, you go to work, step over a homeless person on the way to the subway, go to the gym, go to the sushi bar, go home and fall asleep," says Kenneth Adams, executive director of New York Cares, a sort of charitable clearinghouse for yuppies that has recruited 600 young volunteers to tutor dropouts, serve in soup kitchens, renovate housing and visit the elderly. "The Me generation is dying," says Adams, "and New York...
...state-of-the-art museum tickets -- gives Seoul at times the look of a rough-and-ready version of Japan. But everything is hotter here; the summers are warmer, the people more hot-blooded, and the local food has a garlicky tang far removed from the cool elegance of sushi. Korean pride is no less full of flavor. One of the most elegant museums in the city, approached through solemn wooden gates, is devoted not to Buddhist statuary, or to modern painting, or even to Korean celadon, but simply to the country's spiciest national treasure: pickled vegetables, or kimchi...
...cabin on the prairie. Now, as we near the end of the American Century, two alternative cultures beckon the American imagination: the Asian and the Latin American. Both are highly communal cultures, in contrast to the literalness of American culture. Americans devour what they might otherwise fear to become. Sushi will make them lean, subtle corporate warriors. Combination Plate No. 3, smothered in mestizo gravy, will burn a hole in their hearts...