Word: caked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pitting working-class whites against blacks keeps the "white heat" off us, but it keeps a lot of the warmth away as well. That absence of social peace--however "refined," however accepted--is hurting us more than we know: those at the top, for all their sophistication, become wedding-cake figures, deprived and innocent of the world around them; those in the middle barter themselves daily, hustling and striving and somehow always missing the point. Baldwin says that blacks still "free" of those maladies become not only victims of whites' hatred and fear, but, ironically, furtively, sources of the love...
Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers came to offer advice; Priscilla of Boston, who PEOPLE designed Tricia Nixon's wedding gown, put on a fashion show; and Ellen Proxmire, wife of Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, brought a four-tiered wedding cake. Cartoon fans, take heart. Before the evening's end, Messick assured all present that Brenda would stick to her old newspaper beat for some time to come. After all, explained Dale, "she didn't marry a rich...
...vacation snaps, including some respectable photos of Husband David atop a stone camel at the Ming Tombs. Lest Julie's amateur shutterbugging go awry, Chinese photographers accompanied the couple and presented them with a record of their trip. One other gift was included-a surprise 63rd birthday cake for Dad from the Shanghai Revolution ary Committee. "It said 'Happy Birthday, Mr. Nixon,' "disclosed Julie, "both in English and Chinese...
Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake...
...Delilah, according to Judges 16:19, made Samson "sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man and she caused him to shave off the seven locks ..." Nothing in the 18th Amendment prohibited the consumption of liquor, only its manufacture, sale or transportation. As for the cake eating, it was the haughty Duchess of Tuscany who made the remark circa...