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...originate in an anti-elitist assumption and an attractively irrational impulse to stick a thumb in the eye of power - the underlying reason, for example, for Jesse Ventura's election as governor of Minnesota, or, again, for Truman's victory over the smug little man on the wedding cake...
Still, as a child of divorce, Marcia confesses, if things went bad, "it would be a piece of cake for me to say, 'See ya.'" Then, within months of their marriage four years ago, Marcia experienced a series of losses: her father, her mother and her best friend. "Russ didn't know how to react," she says. "I felt abandoned, and we thought we were getting divorced...
...considered possibilities (raw-meat sandwiches?), a little voice piped up from the backseat. "Do you know what I want for my birthday?" Having forgotten exactly who remained in the car, I fell back on a generic response: "Chocolate cake, pink-frosting flowers and a personalized birthday serenade from a famous teenybopper-heartthrob band?" The voice replied, "No, I want to stay home and play with friends in the backyard...
...cake. Local residents have set up an informal canteen in the Thurmont Elementary School filing center where they sell muffins, donuts, sodas, snacks, sandwiches and pieces of pizza from Dominos. Best bet: little cups of fresh-picked local blueberries, just 25 cents...
...weak-kneed for celebrities - remember when Ted "Cat Scratch Fever" Nugent came to sing the praises of bow hunting? But the scene in the packed hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, to discuss the legality of free-music sites like Napster and MP3.com, may have taken the cake...