Word: bananas
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...pretty complimentary: we're an upscale!!, modern!!, clean!!, cheery!! bunch. Although it has plenty of Asian items, the chain pushes its prepackaged but fresh-pressed panini as well as microwavable pastas. And damn if it didn't improve on the Twinkie: its packaged dessert with a chocolate-covered banana topped with whipped cream and rolled in a vanilla cake is perfect convenience-store food...
...Beach High, where he played quarterback and shortstop, Stoeckel was unaccustomed to such rejection. So the freshman they called “Stokes” did that next summer what any washed-up high school jock would do: he retreated into the citrus groves of central Florida to battle banana spiders and find himself...
...should all hope to die well. By that, I don't mean in the classic Greek sense of dying heroically, as in battle. I'm suggesting a much lower standard: just not dying badly. At a minimum, not dying comically-death by banana peel or pratfall or (my favorite, I confess) onstage, like the actor Harold Norman, killed in 1947 during an especially energetic sword fight in the last scene of Macbeth...
...Samoan Hawaiian used football to escape the "banana ghetto." Singing the national anthem before a Green Bay Packers game inspired the music career he has pursued since he left the NFL in '99. Although he officially came out in 2002, he has been with his partner for a decade, and they have adopted twins...
...talks with Stevens, he said, she claimed that she had been followed and that her dog had been sodomized. "I mean it's really beginning to be pathetic," Stevens says on the tapes, adding, "She had accused her husband of molesting the child." The woman, he concluded, was a "banana truck." Questions about the mental state of the boy's mother had also been raised by a letter mentioning witches and Satanism that she wrote to the D.A. in February 1984, a month before the seven defendants were indicted. Stevens claims to have been surprised when the Manns told...