Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston does not bake a 15-foot cake for just any occasion. Beginning at noon today, an estimated 5000-10,000 citizens will gather in City Hall Plaza to gaze upon the bakery masterpiece and join the festivities surrounding the city's 350th birthday. Robert Burke '73, one of the organizers of "Boston Jubilee 350," said yesterday...
Throughout the afternoon, musical groups--including the Spring Revels and the New England Conservatory Jazz Band--will provide live entertainment. Three hot-air balloons will offer a preview of the full-scale balloon race over the weekend. Boston Mayor Kevin C. White will cut the cake, opening the reception center for the celebration...
...York, New York, Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are (pay a little attention here, Billy); and, astonishingly, a beautiful rendition of Jimmy Webb's Mac Arthur Park, which Sinatra has built up simply by scaling down the psychedelic reveries (imagine him singing "Someone left the cake out in the rain") and letting a shimmering love song stand plain and perfect. The third record of the set is a Gordon Jenkins orchestral fantasia about things to come. It is entirely dispensable. For Frank Sinatra, the future...
Taber was assisted by Reporter-Researchers Charles Alexander and Robert Grieves, who helped to pin down such fine points as the cost of gasoline in Bulgaria, the distribution of wealth envisioned in Plato's Republic, and whether Marie Antoinette really did say, "Let them eat cake" (she did not). Says Alexander: "Happily, we had to reach out of our accustomed economic niche to become students of history, literature and philosophy." Last week TIME opened its first bureau on mainland China since our office in Shanghai was closed in September 1949, four months after the city was taken over...
...economic policy. His government decontrolled many basic prices, including those of bread, which had been regulated since the let-them-eat-cake days...