Word: cake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aunt Bessie would continuallyask me if I wanted anything. According to custom,I always had to refuse twice--politely--beforeaccepting. Since we were family, Aunt Bessieusually skipped the three offer pas-de-deux andproceeded to reload my plate upon my firstrefusal. These reinforcements often includedsurprises like potato salad, pound cake, homemadeice cream and sweet potato pie. Amazingly, I wasalways able to finish off whatever was given tome. I guess she had a way of being able to discernexactly when I was about to burst, a term I don'tuse lightly...
Woody and Mia. No last names, please, for the king and queen of Manhattan's glitterati. For a decade they were the wax-doll couple atop a cake at the wedding of popular art and social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York...
...piece of cake. Our message has been correct all along: We can turn it around," Hornblower said." "One party has been the rule in Massachusetts for so long, but now we have the balance we need for open debate...
Sophomore Francie Walton added the icing on the cake minutes later, scoring on a free-position goal with :14 left...
Twenty-five Mather residents sipped soda and munched on potato chips, cookies and cake as they set up their own political "party" last night...