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...family's pastry shop. Hannah, 18, minds the cash register and serves customers. Vinh, 17, who has kept his name because it is easy to pronounce as "Vin," works the cleanup detail. Christina, 15, washes dishes, and Jennifer, 12, aids her mother Therese with the baking and cake decorating. "American children don't understand," says Hannah. "They don't know why I can't go to the beach." As a consequence, many immigrants' children look upon home-grown Americans only as casual friends...
...Greek descent, Arthur Targotsidis, 18, of Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung for his captors at their request, and they had presented him with a cake on his 39th birthday, which had occurred on the second day of the hijacking...
...five hostages sat at a long table covered with a white tablecloth and plates of cake and bottles of water. Some of the hostages seemed ill at ease in the company of their captors, who stood behind them in camouflage fatigues, some armed with automatic weapons. Conwell and others dodged questions that they regarded as sensitive, particularly those concerning the group of hostages who were being kept separately...
...abstract neon walls of apple green, red-orange, pink and blues inside the Tacoma Dome, a sports arena. Artist Joe Augusta, who is also a tube bender, shapes masklike faces like Elvis Machine in startling colors, and Los Angeles Artist Eric Zimmerman made a playful neon birthday cake for the city's 1981 bicentennial. "Neon is the strongest, most direct form of illustration," argued Artist Larry Rivers in Rudi Stern's 1979 book Let There Be Neon. "And the canvas is the night...
...nobody else did, either. It means being expelled and erased from Harvard's records, and a sign went up on the door of Hurlbut I soon after: "We Love Expunge Cake...