Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While most of Harvard and Cambridge is still asleep, and the kitchens at the nearby Charles Hotel warm up for breakfast, the 18 black-robed monks of the Society of St. John the Evangelist rise, leaving their austere cells to meet in the Gothic chapel. As the morning light streams through stained-glass windows, they begin the day just as monks have for centuries, reciting matins, the traditional morning prayers written by St. Benedict...
...Patrick's Day began badly for Boston Globe Editor Michael Janeway. Over breakfast that Monday, Jack Driscoll, his deputy, confided that he was leaving the paper. After 15 months in the paper's top post, Janeway, 45, still depended heavily on the 28-year Globe veteran, who was immensely popular among staffers. Then came bleaker tidings. When Janeway reported Driscoll's wishes to Publisher William Taylor, he was utterly unprepared for his boss's reaction. The paper could not afford to lose Driscoll, Taylor replied. Would Janeway consider becoming Driscoll's No. 2 man? The proposal astounded Janeway...
Valerie Harper, once TV's best-known neurotic single, is back in sitcomland as a housewife and mother of three boys in Valerie. Unfortunately, she spends more time milking gag lines than paying attention to the details of motherhood. When a youngster spills maple syrup all over the breakfast table, Mom yells convincingly but makes no move toward the table. Is there a mother on earth who would not be there with a sponge in two seconds flat? Of course, the gooey mess must stay in place so 16-year-old David (Jason Bateman...
...arrived in Washington at 6:30a.m. Women poured off the bus. Some women had a cigarette and a Perrier for breakfast. The marchers began to gather in a field between the Washington monument and the Capitol building. Various college banners were laid out in roughly alphabetical order. Directors, clothed in white to symbolize women's sufferage, scurried around to organize the marchers...
...brought along her parents, Bob and Jeanne Johnson. The elder Perssons have previously "swung up into Canada a couple of times" and driven as far as Tennessee, but this is the trip of a lifetime for them. Like other first timers in Las Vegas, they are dazzled, even by breakfast. The $1.99 buffet at a casino called Circus Circus stretches, at least in the recounting, "from here to that telephone pole" across the parking lot. "You had to walk a block," says Bob Johnson...