Word: cappuccino
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Raised in the suburbs and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Geoghegan, 42, could easily have turned out to be like others of his generation, wanting, as he says, to go into real estate and cappuccino. Instead he ended up as a labor lawyer in Chicago, working for outfits like the Steelworkers, the Teamsters and the Autoworkers. Along the way, he also became a writer and has produced a fine first book that blends an unswervingly honest account of labor's history with his adventures as a modern-day Don Quixote of the legal profession whose battles take place...
...dawning of the new age of avarice, I felt like John Reed in Moscow in 1917. A revolution in human consumption patterns was under way, and I was on the barricades, ordering grilled tuna with sun-dried tomatoes, an arugula-and-radicchio salad, an insouciant Chardonnay and cappuccino...
...yuppie's memoir of Filofaxes, cappuccino and sun-dried tomatoes...
...break the big news first: David Lynch's current favorite liquids are red wine, bottled water and coffee. "I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee. Water varies all around. We've got to drink something. Do . you just drink water, sometimes? It's very good for you." And, stop the presses, David Lynch doesn't cook at home. "No, ma'am! I don't allow cooking in my house. The smell. The smell of cooking -- when you have drawings, or even writings...
With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...