Word: cake
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...economic recovery program would prove a smashing success. Even David Stockman's adversaries admired his effectiveness as a promoter of the Reagan cause. At his regular breakfast last week with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Chief Economic Adviser Murray Weidenbaum, Stockman was delighted by a birthday cake presented by Regan, his principal rival within the bureaucracy. It was decorated with 35 tiny hatchets, symbolizing Stockman's tender years and his budget-slashing accomplishments. He laughed loudly at another Regan gift: a T shirt bearing the words I AM A TEAM PLAYER on the front and TREASURY DEPARTMENT SUPPLY...
...with simplicities like fruit flans and potato gnocchi (which originated in Provence, not Italy). Her anthology of country stews-meat, fish and game-is thorough, as is her catalogue raisonné of cheeses. Some of the most luscious of all regional dishes are sweet: the fruity pound cake of the Loire, the tangy tartlets of Rouen and the fritters from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines came from Commercy in Lorraine; the word restaurant originated in Paris more than 200 years...
What insane lawyer would take such a devil of a case? The sisters find him in an Ole Miss grad (Peter MacNicol) who was smitten with Babe when she once served him pound cake at a church bazaar. Besides, he relishes "personal vendettas...
...Tory supporter. Inside the rococo Winter Gardens ballroom at the seaside resort of Blackpool, the 4,000 delegates to the annual Conservative Party conference last week joined in song and cheers as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a self-assured 56, uncorked a bottle of champagne and cut the birthday cake. Exuding confidence, Thatcher picked up on the theme she had stated briskly on her arrival earlier in the day: "All is well. All is very well...
With three earlier goals to his credit, Jakobson's final tally was just icing on the cake. Playing perhaps the finest game of his Harvard career, the SoHo senior pressured the MIT defense all night long...