Word: au
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gateau au fromage de Philadelphie...
...look, you think as you wait for a self-service scoop of cauliflower au gratin. The gentleman in front of you on line is wearing a ski mask. How quaint. However will he use his fork and knife? Oh, what does it matter. These ingenious Harvard men will always find...
Just because two departments share the same water-cooler doesn't mean that intellectual cross-pollination, let alone revolutionary thinking, will result. We have witnessed what happens when adherents of one discipline are given power over the future of another: au revoir, Linguistics...
Unfortunately, the places where these caffeinated rendezvous take place make cheap dives look hospitable by comparison. I know these places all to well, since my significant other is as inveterate a coffee-drinker as I am an anti-coffee complainer. The most prominent Square dealer of coffee is Au Bon Pain. This bustling souk is an appropriate center for the vortex of madness that is Harvard Square. Placing an order here is like snatching food at a U.N. relief center; rather than a line, ABP's organizing principle is a mob, attended to by several semi-competent cashiers...
Ryan walked into Au Bon Pain to get something to eat as the officer waited outside. When he emerged to begin a security check of the Holyoke Arcade, he was ambushed by The Crimson. One reporter approached him from the front, another appeared from behind. The photographer, who had hidden behind a pillar and worried about whether he could focus a night picture, jumped in front of lawyer and started snapping pictures...