Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Saigon's "Soul Kitchen" black GI's greet each other over spareribs, pork chops, chittlins, grits and cornbread with more than 57 varieties of black power handshakes that may end with vowing to die for your comrade by crossing the chest Roman legion style...
...long flowing hair, his stately appearance, and his knighthood completed the effect. Appearance does not assure good press, though, and Barbirolli never got it. While most of the great British conductors-Beecham, Goossens, Sargent, Boult-stayed primarily in their native country, Barbirolli came to America to conduct the New Pork Philharmonic when Toscanini left it in 1937. His disastrous career here insured him of a bad critical reputation for the rest of his life...
...money and material aid to candidates and groups... either through covert means or openly through the distribution of 'pork-barrel' projects...
...Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With the pork chops or cube steak or fried chicken come piles of mashed potatoes and canned creamed corn or cut green beans. The Dixie puts out a fried-chicken dinner "with that come-back taste"; it also boasts a barbershop and two gift shops that sell 3-D tableaux of the Last Supper and diapers with...
Along with xenophobia has come a surge of Islamic asceticism. All foreign language signs are banned, including street names. Tripoli hotels have had to buy new towels and table napkins to replace the old ones, which had English or Italian on them. Pork has been banned; so has alcohol (except for embassies and oil workers deep in the desert). A bootleg bottle of Scotch brings $20 and the risk of arrest...