Word: birthdaying
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Nothing was to be too grand for Texas' 150th birthday, not even a visit from the Prince of Wales. And so there stood Charles last week, biting into his first taco, cutting a slice from a 90,000-lb. sesquicentennial birthday cake and receiving an 18-inch ceremonial gavel from the state legislature. The gavel, he said, was "the biggest I've ever had, which is entirely appropriate because it comes from Texas...
...picture a huge inflatable rainbow bridge spanning the Charles River from Allston to Cambridge. Lots of colors. Lots of children. And the Veritas logo splattered everywhere--all part of a plan to share Harvard's big 350th birthday bash next September with the Cambridge community...
Nothing's final yet, but the university has hired a well-known Boston consultant to plan a day-long river fest along Memorial Drive--complete with a laser light show projected on misty water, veritable barges of floating musicians, and maybe even a birthday cake, courtesy of local hotels...
Even when Harvard does try to do something constructive for Cambridge, it's usually more of the same old let-them-eat-cake mentality coming out of The Big H. This time around, it's 350th birthday cake...
...however, much skirting of the bounds of propriety, including a catty reference to Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, and a portrayal of Nancy as a chain-smoking lush by an actor in Adolfo-like drag. One White House aide thought the whole thing tasteless. Said he: "Some birthday present to his father...