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...intractable waitress in the 1970 Jack Nicholson film Five Easy Pieces; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In the movie, her unyielding "No substitutions" to Nicholson's request for toast with his lunch order prompts a prickly exchange that culminates with her disgusted "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?" and a Nicholson retort that has made the scene a fixture of Hollywood highlight reels...
Harvard University Dining Services will announce that popcorn chicken causes a rare form of lymphoma common in lab mice...
...free dinners from local churches and charities. They say they earn enough from their federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) check to afford coffee and tea—and an occasional danish—in the mornings. For lunch, Rick sometimes cashes in cans and bottles to buy a whole chicken from the DeMoulas Market Basket in Somerville...
Rather than become too familiar with that still-hated idea of failure, we learn to make choices. Some are easy ones—chickwich or chicken parmigiana; study, or procrastinate. For me, however, even these supposedly simple ones have sometimes been tricky. Each choice in one direction is an opportunity foregone in another. As an only child and (former?) overachiever, the idea that you can’t have it all, or do it all, remains repugnant, no matter how realistic. Yet I can only survive so long without sleep, so sometimes in the juggling act, despite my best efforts...
...Skocpol described her tenure conflict as “a many-year game of chicken with the leaders of the most arrogant university in the western world...