Word: apricot
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Before reading, Rich humorously recalled her undergraduate years at Radcliffe. She noted her former haunts, "cavernous cheap coffee-plans," as well as the books stores and libraries where she got her "independent education." She also recounted sitting in Whitman Hall "drinking illicit apricot brandy form a cologne bottle...
...Island. This time, Reagan was subdued, ministerial. Wearing a yarmulke, he promised that if ever Israel were forced to walk out of the United Nations, America would walk out too. He charmed and soothed the congregation. The cameras picked him up; they picked him up again at lunch, eating apricot kugel (a pudding) at the rabbi's home immediately thereafter. The television "bites" that evening warmed the hearts of thousands of uncertain Jewish voters in middle-class Long Island; the Jewish vote was essential if he was to carry New York...
...libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...
Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
...code violations. Rather, the Calaveras fault-a tributary of the mighty San Andreas fault three miles away-runs right under his house in Hollister, Calif, (pop. 11,430), 85 miles south of San Francisco. The local Chamber of Cornmerce likes to stress the area's lush walnut and apricot groves, burgeoning industrial base and commuting proximity to "Silicone Valley." But some Hollister boosters have a catchier slogan for their community: THE EARTHQUAKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Indeed, the San Andreas fault, largest of the 32 active and inactive incisions in San Benito County, stretches out its tightened muscles several...