Word: crabbed
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Greeted by Mozart, crab cakes, and $30 bottles of champagne, a who’s who of Harvard filled the Faculty Room in University Hall yesterday for the unveiling of the official portrait of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine.Appearing amid the pomp and pageantry were some of Harvard’s most low-profile leaders, including incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok and three members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body.Before the portrait was revealed, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, reading from a single pink Post-It note, delivered...
...smooth leather for a little under $100 and pink-spotted stationery for $20. Past this and the neighborhood coffee shop (iced chai latte, $3.65), there sits a solid Whole Foods. Blackberries are priced $5.99. A half loaf of bread costs 99 cents. A willing customer can buy corn-and-crab chowder and creole crawfish salad by unit weight.In New Orleans, normalcy can be bought by the pound.PLAYING MANNEQUINOn a yellow Friday afternoon of spring break, Fountain sits on a porch with two old men just the way old men like Fountain always have here in this city. He leans back...
...which formed part of that scheme. One poem starts: "Alas, alas, I have been betrayed by my fleeting days ? " and concludes: "There is no harm equal to that of wasted time." The rest of the page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part of a process and more meditations on profound themes. Studies for a Deposition, ca. 1523 shows the disposal of Christ's body...
...mere six hours after closing the bar, Batali could be found swimming in the Peninsula's rooftop pool. After he swam, Batali put away crab cake Benedict while constantly checking his Treo for messages and simultaneously answering my questions. Then he was off for two hours of negotiations with retailers to persuade them to place orders for his cookware. Next he did the demo, and afterward he signed autographs for about 250 fans. He also kept up a running banter that had continued all weekend...
...soup. That's what attracted the hordes paying as much as $30 a serving long before the Seinfeld parody. The soup, most notably the sumptuous lobster and crab bisques, earned him a rating in the Zagat food guide higher than those of some of Manhattan's best chefs. Yeganeh travels the world looking for unusual spices, and each soup is studded with fresh vegetables and meat. "We're sure that there's a strong market out there for these premium soups," says Bello...