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Skaters also visited patients at the Jimmy Fund facility in Boston, and met patients again at the opening banquet. The skaters also hosted a party for the cancer patients called “Skating with Champions.” The Fund is affiliated with Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skating Exhibition Raises $50,000 For Jimmy Fund | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When It's O.K. to Laugh at the Old | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When It's OK to Laugh at the Old | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...Manhattan where the "edomae nigiri sushi" goes for as much as $90 a person and where, in the center of the main dining room, you will find a 5-ft.-high ice sculpture of the Buddha that, no surprise, is replaced every day. Ice? Well, if you forget every banquet-hall buffet centerpiece you've ever seen, it's possible to think of ice as the last word in enigmatic swank, prettier than crystal, hard enough to be a murder weapon but more perishable than cashmere. In this lavishly conceived room, with its pillars made from earthenware sake vessels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feast Your Eyes | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...affairs can be as lavish as any wedding. Quinceaneras usually begin with a Roman Catholic Mass, followed by a reception in which the girl dances a waltz with her father and performs a dance with her court. All told, a typical party costs about $10,000 for gowns, DJ, banquet hall, limos and food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifteen Candles | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

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