Word: brie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hate to Be a Basement," has long been enshrined in local lore, but his early academic promise has led only to idle fancying. Miss Doubloon, the lad's current teacher, explains to his anxious parents: "He would rather read novels in which the characters toy with a little Brie while waiting for their friends to turn up along the boulevard. If we can't get Anthony to concentrate, and hard, on the War of 1812 and obtuse triangles-" The pupil interrupts: "Like the dumb postmaster and his wife and that boarder they say is fooling around with...
...irony. Newark-based People Express, the cost-conscious, no-free-food airline that is sometimes called the McDonald's of the skies, was throwing a bash for employees, passengers and anyone else who dropped by. Champagne flowed and tables were covered with such treats as candied kiwi fruit, Brie and salmon mousse...
...BRITISH The British, who have not come up with a new cheese since they developed Stilton nearly three centuries ago, are now marketing a product quaintly titled Lymeswold. The first European-style blue-veined full-soft cheese ever developed in the U.K., it resembles a German variety of Brie in texture and appearance; in flavor it is somewhat like Italian dolcelatte, a milder cousin of gorgonzola. It has a white rind, costs up to $5.70 per lb., and will last as long as six weeks in the refrigerator. The cheese was developed by the Milk Marketing Board, the national dairy...
...movie simply isn't funny. This is the same old pretentious, anti-anti-intellectual garbage that a small coterie of snooty brie-toting critics have been shovelling out ever since the initial Pink Panther, and it's as stupid now as it ever was. Just because a movie is all slapstick and zero social commentary doesn't mean it can't be uproariously funny. So you want relevance? Trail of the Pink Panther is actually a symbolic indictment of supply-side economics during a recession-plagued post-industrial era. Satisfied...
Recruiters from these 35 firms set up tables and small exhibits and piles of brochures in Memorial Hall and chatted comfortably with nervous students. At 4 p.m. Office of Career Services (OCS) officials, who organized the Career Forum, feted the company reps with wine, fancy hors d'oeuvres, and brie cheese...