The boys had made kokoretsi out of the intestines and offal of the goat they had taken from the resentful nomarch of the village, and were watching it sizzle in the cinders of the fire.
[W]hat I am trying to explain to you is that I have rather cracked grains and that a visit from you would not solve anything, especially with a jug of red eye when my stomach is gone.
[…] sodium chloride was discriminated significantly better after a pretaste of distilled water, hot bouillon, hot coffee (1% level), or tomato juice (5% level), than after milk, apple juice, or raw apple.
The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika.
