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...also gained national notoriety in 2006 when his legislation to ban the “Fluffernutter”—a sandwich made of peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff—in public schools was mocked as an example of legislative micromanaging. Barrios later signed on to a bill to make the “Fluffernutter” the official state sandwich...
...closer to hard drive than human: he can play virtually any tune, in any style, in any key, after hearing it just once, even if it was years ago. The 27-year-old pianist is blind and severely learning disabled; he can't tie his own shoelaces or butter a piece of bread. Yet his musical gifts appear almost unlimited. With rehearsals over, Paravicini and his longtime teacher Adam Ockelford go into a quiet room to listen to a recording of the version of Bumblebee that the orchestra has learned. A few hours later, in front of 400 people, Paravicini...
These are self-centered ruminations, however—what leaves us even more distraught is the lack of effect we’ve had on the student body. Nine months of peddling genuine Wisconsin-made wisdom butter in Harvard Yard may have been one human gestation cycle wasted. Had we had access to amniocentesis for our column, we would have had aborted it faster than DA’s parents chose him over the less developed fetus he shared a liver, kidneys, and large intestine with. Our sales pitch, “Let us butter your domes...
...pleasantly tacky decor has hardly changed in years. Trishna will be crammed with a mixture of local businessmen, Bollywood celebrities and tourists. You sit in small wooden booths that add to the sense of crowding, while waiters bring you live crabs to show the various sizes available. Dressed with butter and garlic sauce, the crab is divine and deservedly the speciality of the house. You can have it in the shell or out, depending on how much mess you want to make. I had it without and it came as an oily pile of joy on the plate...
...Whitney's standup routine of country rube one-liners is his bread and butter, but he's becoming a box office regular. In 2006, his movie Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector earned $15.6 million, proving that enough of Whitney's fans would show up at the multiplex for the potty humor and Dale Earnhardt Jr. references they knew from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour to make his films profitable. As the voice of the tow truck character Mater in the Pixar movie Cars, Whitney was introduced to some other demographics...