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...view is inspired in part by Reagan's personal grace, the lack of which in national debate has dismayed Kennedy. In part, too, Kennedy's view stems from 23 years in the Senate, which have nurtured an awareness that there is more to politics than the struggles for Government pork and headlines on the nightly news. He says that J.F.K. and Reagan both set agendas, participated in the daily struggles but "succeeded in reaching above that to establish a national feeling of hope and direction...
...citizens were almost as excited about GM's imminent arrival as they were over an important Little League game in which Andersen's Hardware blasted Jack Warren's Stables by a 30-14 score. At the Poplar Inn on Main Street, where townspeople and truckers can always enjoy pork tenderloin, biscuits and the latest gossip, diners were abuzz about how Maclin Davis, a Nashville lawyer, had accumulated options to buy 4,000 acres around Haynes Haven farm. A few residents had mixed emotions. "I will hate to see the farmlands torn up," said Ronald Woody, assistant principal of Spring Hill...
...with were not always the kind that protected and developed an artist's talent. All that new money fostered a resale market, in which dealers helped collectors unload pictures they often had not held long in the first place. Paintings were "flipped" like Miami condos and traded like pork bellies--not a market designed to cultivate an artist's career over the long haul. "I try to forget the '80s as much as possible," says Robert Longo. "I was a total egomaniac, a lunatic child at that point." Early in the decade, Longo became famous for large-scale realistic drawings...
...himself a Kenyan-born Indian, has substituted olive oil for ghee, reflecting modern health concerns. The result is a compendium of dishes that will have the home chef salivating. Prawns are slow-cooked with fenugreek, Mombasa-style; there's a decadent (but narcotic-free) dish called Opium Eggs; and pork is prepared with tamarind, chili and red wine. Conservative use of spices is another feature of the book...
...etymology of the phrase “chitlin’ circuit” is rich in symbolism: “chitlin’” is a slang form of “chitterling,” which is itself a euphemism for pork entrails. Chitlin’s have been a staple of black cooking since the slave era: plantation masters considered the organ meats refuse and, thus, suitable fare for human chattel. This historical promotion of junk meat into ethnic cuisine is metaphoric of Perry’s transformation of marginal black theater into a lucrative cultural...