Word: breakfast
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...letter of March 3. I had not expected such an uncivil letter from you and your fellow officers; no communication I had received in recent months from anyone in PBHA had taken such a tone. Assistant Dean of Public Service Judith H. Kidd, who reported having had a congenial breakfast with you only a couple of weeks ago, was equally startled; and in a friendly and solicitous visit I had from the current PBHA President only a few days before I received your letter, there was no hint of the kind of animosity your letter displays. I must wonder what...
Still, 40 people will gather starting today for tea, a tour and dinner and will stay through breakfast, lunch and two presentations on Saturday. Most of them, including Louis I. Kane '53, founder of Au Bon Pain, and John G.L. Cabot '56, have given significant gifts to Harvard in the past...
Unfortunately, his insistence on repetition beats his jokes to death. The running gag of the show is the neurotic cockney maid Edith, who is unable to perform her duties at a normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the play trying to slow her down. The triviality of this detail is magnified enormously as it is repeated, endlessly. Also distracting is the number of times Charles visits the liquor cabinet and meticulously makes dry martinis--stirred, not shaken. The pace of the plot is not quick enough to keep...
Your basic movie-mogul breakfast menu would include strawberries, decaf, a splash of Evian, maybe a Diet Coke. But Harvey Weinstein has never got with fit-for-life cuisine. One morning at the recent Sundance Film Festival, the co-chairman of Miramax Films eagerly devoured a greasy omelette (the secret ingredient: cholesterol) while schmoozing with a reporter about art, movies and life in general. It's been said that a family of four could subsist for a month on the crumbs that stick to Weinstein's shirt. That family may soon need to find other means of dietary support...
JACKIE ROBINSON Fifty years after batting down the color bar, he's boosting the Breakfast of Champions...