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Singing was not enough, however; a complete transformation was required. The passage of time and the ingestion of enough peanut butter sandwiches usually do transform twelve-year-old children, of course. But Streep sees what she calls "my makeover" as a willed act, accomplished with contact lenses, a bottle of peroxide and an iron determination. By the time she entered Bernards High School in Bernardsville, N.J., she had indeed become "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout," acting out what she calls "my first characterization; I played the blond homecoming queen for several years." It was not a mindless, giddy time, however...
...U.N.H. and enrolled at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, which he chose because it sounded more exotic than London, Paris or Madrid. "It is good," he says, "for a writer to go to a place where everything is novel, where you can't even take the butter for granted, where the mayonnaise comes in a tube instead of a jar, where you are made to notice even the trivial things-especially the trivial things...
...helps that the nation is asking these questions at a time of year when it is otherwise busy squinting up at tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season...
...cost of $1.60 for a large scoop with one mix-in, or $2 for a large scoop with three mix-ins. A mix-in, for those who have not yet followed aerobic eating into its postmodern era, may be butterscotch chips and walnuts, pulverized Reese's peanut butter cups, crushed Oreos, M & Ms or-in some temples of asceticism-granola. Mix-ins are not simply dumped on top of a scoop of ice cream as toppings would be in a conventional sundae; they are kneaded expertly into the very flesh of the scoop-be still, my beating heart!-while...
...intentionally or unintentionally created a kind of hole-in-the-wall chic." It sure has; suburbanites frequently drive an hour each way to stand in a 20-min. line in front of Bob's and pay 950 for a cone and $3.75 for a quart of apple-peanut butter, banana mango or mocha almond. People buy Bob's Kahlua for $17 per gal., and some have spent $40 to airfreight it across the country. Owner Bob Weiss, 35, a lawyer who tired of the profession when he followed his lawyer-wife to Washington, started the shop three years...