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...couldn't really figure out what relation Baseball Nut has to America's Pastime. And we don't think it's being served at Fenway these days. But the flavor, with cashew and a rasberry swirl made the ice cream seem like a light sorbet. Although Baseball Nut had the same vanilla ice cream as the Reese's, it was significantly lighter and less sweet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the Perfect Scoop | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...James Ellroy came to town on a promotional tour for his new book, Crime Wave. The Wednesday before his gig at MIT, he appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Barely alighted on the hotseat, he announced, with appropriate finger gestures, that the President is hung like a cashew. The Crimson immediately pulled strings and waxed plaintive to get a one-on-one with the celebrated word-wrestler who delivered such literary punches as The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential. Armed for the interview with nonsense and irreverence, The Crimson was taken aback to find a straight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAMES ELLROY: CRIME PAYS | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

Finally, Andrew Dietderich displays a strong voice in the Russian-ish song about his predicament--"I am nutty as an old cashew (Bless you)." It is unfortunate that his part allows him little opportunity to do anything but yell and scream...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Pudding Heights | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

...their design. The batter had gone into the oven a month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session code-named "Operation Sultana." He added a little Navy rum ("Just for flavor. You don't want people to get paralytic") and baked the largest layer for 8½ hours. The result, which was stashed behind a locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

MOZAMBIQUE. Pop. 9,300,000. Independent (from Portugal) since June 1975. One-party Communist-socialist regime. Literacy: 7%. Per capita G.N.P.: $200. Exports: cashew nuts, sugar, cotton. Economy was hurt by the ten-year preindependence guerrilla war, which was followed by a flight of skilled whites and imposition of doctrinaire socialism. The country is heavily dependent upon transit trade with South Africa and $120 million a year in wage remittances from Mozambicans employed in its mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A GUIDE TO THE BLACK FRONT | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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