Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such confection aficionado was Philip H. Chang '94, who said he favored the frozen fudge cake "without a doubt." Chang said for him the event was a time for "feasting, relaxing, and celebrating [finishing his] midterms...
While the general public and the Surgeon General still hold their nose, savvy marketing men have taken note of this trend. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the successful Wine Spectator, plans to launch a quarterly magazine, Cigar Aficionado, and fill it with ratings, taste tests and snob appeal. What evidence does he have that it will succeed? "I'd like to tell you I did serious market research," he admits. "But I'm a cigar lover. I just decided to do it and hoped I could find 20,000 guys out there like...
...home was a Bastille Day celebration in which guests were invited to come dressed as their favorite subject from the French Revolution. Morris' father William, a high school English teacher and amateur musician, taught his son to read music when he was just four. His mother Maxine, a dance aficionado with a special fondness for flamenco, took him to see the Jose Greco company when he was eight. It was love at first jete. A local dance teacher gave him a scholarship, and by the time he was 13, Morris was choreographing pieces. "I'd make up these dances...
MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY. Now 72, Cunningham has been making modern choreography for 50 fiercely independent years. His dance seasons at Manhattan's City Center Theater are an aficionado's delight. This time, as usual, he mixes new works (three of them) and welcome revivals (like the 1981 Channels/Inserts). March...
...college students say they want lingerie in the first place? Harvard first-year and lingerie aficionado Regina N. Ford thinks, "College is a time when you change from a child to an adult. For females this means that you want to feel like a woman, and lingerie is very feminine...