Word: caking
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...Dragontails" birthday party she and her husband George recently gave for their son Kieran, 4. "All the paraphernalia, the goody bags--it was over the top," Mary recalled. "Then Kieran hinted he'd have been just as happy playing hide-and-seek with a few friends before the cake. I realized I wasn't doing this for him--I was doing it for me! It was just another way of trying to keep up with the new SUV next door...
...Imagine friends who shopped the exotic bazaars of the world invited you to tour their home. You peruse heritage inspired jewelry, clothing, handbags, furnishings, dining ware, cosmetics, and perfumes. Your hostess offers you a massage or make-up lesson. Or you sip herbal tea or coffee and cake in the Kafe. These lifestyle boutiques showcased in a Harlem brownstone tempt a plucky shopper to spend all afternoon...
...best thing JetBlue may have going for it is Neeleman. One of seven siblings, who has nine children of his own, Neeleman has been dreaming about airplanes since he saw a red one on his second birthday cake. A serial travel entrepreneur, he started his first business as an accounting undergraduate at the University of Utah. He has launched four airlines, including Morris Air and Canada's WestJet Airlines, each one more successful than the last. Neeleman, who retains such geeky attributes as wearing a calculator-watch combination, even developed the computer system that became the basis for e-ticketing...
...effect with sharp lines and rainbow profiles of complementary color, a green or a purple, that pulse like halos and throw the whole form into relief. He isn't being hit-or-miss. He is, on the contrary, being intensely thoughtful. The arrays of pie slices or cake stands become Utopian: soft but strict geometry. (No wonder the Pop artist Thiebaud liked best was Claes Oldenburg.) One of the dictators of classical French banquet cooking in the early 19th century, Marie-Antoine Careme, was once asked to name the main arts of humankind. He reeled them off, finishing with "architecture...
...relation to his work, it doesn't mean much: only that he was and presumably still is intrigued and delighted by the sight of multiple-produced American food. Not so much the package (like the soup can) as the soup itself, or for that matter the sandwich, the cake or the slice of pie, sitting there in virginal garishness, the coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits, under the fluorescent tubes in the glass diner case...