Word: caked
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...wish I knew then what I know now. Instead of assuming that the wedding was a terrible mistake and that we would have to return all those silver-plated cake plates, we could have addressed the real problem: our different expectations about marriage...
...Police shoved a torchbearer whose flame had already been extinguished when he pretended to light an 11-year-old's birthday cake, causing the girl to burst into tears...
...music that defines it. It's in the generational blood. Every joy or pang of growing up has an accompanying sound track. And decades later, car-radio playings of specific songs, good or bad, can be as acute a prod to sweet or rueful memory as Proust's tea cake. For Cameron Crowe, the pastry was named Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Poco. And Crowe didn't just listen to them. He interviewed them...
...name first in the suit sure does garner attention. On Wednesday, McCulloch's lawyers - experienced anti-discrimination litigators Lynn Bernabei and Debra Katz - justified the presidential prominence by arguing that the Clinton White House didn't do anything to protect their client from the machinations of the chief cake decorator, and worse, failed to implement federal legislation requiring that procedures be set up so that White House employees could file grievances in just such cases...
...involvement makes the story less juicy, but the suit did have some dishy details about life in the West Wing kitchen: Once, claims McCulloch, after spurning yet another advance, she was ordered to peel eight crates of kiwi fruit; and another time, instead of making the President's birthday cake, usually a highlight of the year, she was told to clean out the refrigerator...