Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cream here is so rich, in fact, that you're best off combining flavors so as not to suffer an overdose of one or the other. The chocolate pudding ice cream, for instance, shouldn't be taken straight except by serious chocoholics. Try complementing it with something a bit lighter, like malted vanilla or espresso...
...some of the fruit-based ice creams. Apricot is terrific. Chocolate lovers, too, will be pleased at the variety of ways they have to satisfy their addiction. It's tough to go wrong here, except that the frappes are extremely thick, and practically guarantee atherosclerosis...
Ehtablay, the Karen rebel, and Ducc, the Los Angeles gang member, have nothing in common except their age, and the intoxication and empowerment that came when they first fired a gun. Young boys, be they in Burma or Afghanistan or Northern Ireland or Los Angeles, are drawn to the violence; even the fear, when it distills into adrenaline, carries illicit pleasure. What sets Los Angeles apart from Afghanistan, Burma and Northern Ireland is that gang warfare, with its spoils of drug money, gratifies greed. Money in South Central is the gang warrior's jihad -- a fitting retribution for a materialistic...
...Belfast. He hopes to immigrate to Australia someday. Frankie is less of a schemer, more of a follower. His father is a member of the U.D.F., the Ulster Defense Force, one of the Protestant paramilitary groups. He doesn't know what he will do when he grows up, except perhaps end up like his father. "I dunno," he says listlessly, "maybe I'll join something...
...wants no part in civil war and wants to go to America, for every child who dreams of joining the I.R.A., there is a ghetto kid who has no dreams and who lives for the present, finding the instant, brief thrill of joyriding worth the risk. It's senseless, except that these kids have become inured to risk, and joyriding is the one violent activity in Belfast where the kid is in control, steering his own danger...