Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who like it sweet can indulge in the down-home flavor of pecan-butter brittle confected by Buckley's Candies of Louisiana. Sophisticated and pricier are some imports from Belgium: Le Chocolatier Manon's bittersweet chocolates filled with mandarin orange liqueur and burnt caramel. Even more stunning is its big marbleized chocolate scallop shell that holds nine chocolate praline fruits de mer -- mussels, crayfish and shrimp -- a dessert that delights the eye as much as the palate...
...THAT THE DAYS OF independent moviehouses have come to an end in the Cambridge area. In the past year, USA Cinemas bought both the Harvard Square and the Janus Theaters, turning each into first-run venues, complete with ornate, plastic interior design and overpriced Swiss chocolate. The Orson Welles burnt to the ground last spring and will not re-open. Only the Brattle Theater--re-emerging after bankruptcy forced the previous owners to sell the building--and the Somerville Theater remain as repertory options to the usually drab first-run fare offered by the USA cinema empire...
...school colors are burnt orange and seal brown...
Driver Michael Seguenza said a cabbies' organization is forming in response to the treatment they have received at past council hearings "You never understand the value of a fire extinguisher until you get burnt, and this year we got burnt," he said...
...Stan and Thelma didn't give retirement a shot. For a while there, they practiced what Stan called senile maneuvers. In a little rubber dinghy that moved, Stan said, "like a burnt-assed bunny," they conquered islands. "We take a new island, it falls, and Thelma goes in, in steel helmet and full pack" is the way Stan described it. The act wore thin, apparently, for in that fashion Stan and Thelma Don't Get Around Much Anymore...