Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thursday morning, as I sat in front of the television watching NASA technicians worry the Discovery through its countdown, I ate a star for breakfast. The star was in the form of a waffle. It consisted mostly of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, with a sprinkling of other elements. Except for the hydrogen, those atoms had been forged in a star that exploded and died long before our sun and solar system were born. The hydrogen was made in the big bang that allegedly began the universe. Some astronomers think that it was on dust grains floating in interstellar space...
...same theme, the Veterans' Workshop will hold a breakfast the following morning to honor 14 Congressional Medal of Honor winners. Jeffrey Raymond, a member of the veterans' organization, said invited guests included Massachussetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis and honorary sponsor of the event, U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), but their offices said neither could attend...
...tested Democrats who had worked for other candidates. There was virtually no planning, no ability to respond to Bush's attacks, and logistics out of the whistle-stop era. Dukakis would have to work until after midnight revising a speech he had just received for the next morning's breakfast event. All too often the candidate would take wooden prose and tired arguments and, miraculously, make them even blander. Small wonder that the campaign message was upstaged by everything from hecklers to a defensive Dukakis response to Bush's latest charges...
...sunrise every morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, the Shanker family gets ready for work. Steven Shanker, 37, and his wife Avima, 35, wake their two sons, Elan, 5, and Dannel, 2, for a hurried breakfast of cereal and orange juice. After the meal Avima heads off by 7:30 to her job as an engineer at Librascope, a computer firm. Then, as other pinstriped parents up and down the San Fernando Valley march out to their cars with groggy children in tow, Steven, a vice president at Union Bank in nearby Monterey Park, drives the boys...
...River festival, where an American pulls off a major upset in an ineffable local version of bingo, in an area in which ruddy-faced stallkeepers wave customers toward pungent wild-boar barbecues, and the only signs in English say DRAFT BEER. And they reach their climax at the buffet breakfast in the Intercontinental Hotel, where they catch a glimpse of Florence Griffith Joyner spooning down her cereal (the Breakfast of Champions, no doubt...