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...feel so removed from Christmas," a friend said to me at brunch the other day. With lights hoisted proudly above Harvard Square minutes after Thanksgiving turkey had been bought, and merchants popping their holiday music mixes into their store-wide cassette players, clearly the Great American Shopping Fest had begun...
Sarah Bartholomew, supervisor of the Adams House dining hall, says the Adams staff receives and average of about five cards per week. After special meals, she says, more students submit feedback cards. Following yesterday's Elegant Brunch, for example, 12 students turned in cards...
Braving the sort of cold Cambridge rain our group has grown accustomed to, we met in the oak-panelled Dunster House dining hall for Sunday brunch. Our gathering was of old comrades, one of whom had recently returned from adventures on the Continent, and another of whom had trekked to the river's edge from distant Cabot House. Over cerebral, though spirited conversation, we prepared a tasty meal of robust proportions from food ordinarily available on the salad bar. Desirous of exploiting the fresh ingredients provisioned by the helpful corps of dining hall staff, we selected simple comestibles. Each recipe...
Yesterday Terminator co-star Linda Hamilton came in, as did Zsa Zsa Gabor. Arnold Schwarzenegger is said to be a silent partner in the place, and an enormous throne has been installed for his regular visits. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who runs Disney, brings his kids in for brunch during the summer. Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Robert Altman have all stopped in from time to time. Even Bill Clinton has dropped by -- twice, in fact, first as a jogging candidate, and then in full presidential mode. "If you want to run into me or ICM's Jim Wiatt or Jeff Katzenberg...
...with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted up have all the reflective force of a Liz Smith column. In one bizarre passage, Morris fantasizes about showing Elvis Presley, whom he never met but imagined as a soul brother, around New York City -- brunch at the Four Seasons, dinner at Lutece, introducing him to Henry Kissinger at the Century -- and inviting him to write a monthly column for Harper's. It's hard to imagine anything more likely to have sent the King screaming back to Graceland...