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...Whim, a sampler plate of apparently what the chef is in the mood to cook. In one corner of the Whim were the chicken quesadillas, kid brother to the burrito without the salad bar inside. Covering the center of the plate was an assortment of barbecued sausage, shrimp and pork, drenched in a "Bad Mood" sauce. Although the sauce was recommended as spicier and better than the "Good Mood" alternative, it was sweet enough to put on pancakes. The bad mood came more from the inclusion of a slice of white bread on the platter, an impardonable sin when...
...PORK QUEENS--Italy, Spain, Europe, Logic...
...speak for so many people of relatively little means. In Appalachia, the handful of elected representatives rarely see their far-flung constituents. The small farmers have a Grange that is a shadow of its former self and several small lobbies that are easily crushed by the huge beef, pork, milk and wheat magnates. Legal immigrants who are not independently wealthy, especially those from Asia and Latin America, have no one but their families to help them face the difficulties of making a fresh start as well as isolated or organized discrimination...
...Ronald Reagan entered office suggesting that government had no business financing or endorsing cultural activity. A dozen years later, the Republicans left the White House having turned the NEA from a sacred cow into a matador's bull -- and having diverted a third of its nominal allocation to potential pork barrel by state arts councils. Even that wasn't enough for Jesse Helms and Patrick Buchanan, who sought to abolish the NEA for purportedly funding obscenity and irreligious bigotry, based on a handful of controversial grants among 100,000 the NEA has given...
...High North Association, a lobbying organization: "Nobody wants to hunt the large whales anymore because they are threatened. But the argument that whales must therefore not be hunted at all is like saying that because one breed of pig is on the verge of dying out, nobody should eat pork...