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...intent on divining the largely unwritten rules that gave the streets their peculiar character and coherence. Former members of the glitzy neomodern firm Arquitectonica, Duany and Plater-Zyberk produced a set of building instructions for Seaside that require in effect a revival of prewar folk architecture, a sort of cracker vernacular. Says Davis: "Our motto is 'Don't invent anything...
...blurted Khrushchev. "Look across the table," retorted Kennedy, "and you will see that we are not so old." One moment Khrushchev was a battering ram determined to end the irritation of West Berlin, a threatened democratic enclave in the midst of Communist East Germany. The next, he was country cracker. Kennedy's cigar match went wild and landed behind Khrushchev's chair. "Are you trying to set me on fire?" snorted Khrushchev. "Not at all," Kennedy assured him (though, as Kennedy later mused, the thought was tempting). "Ah ha!" answered Khrushchev. "A capitalist, not an incendiary...
...million-member United Food and Commercial Workers union trusts that the American public will listen to Mama. In an effort to communicate with the public about issues that affect labor, the organization has hired Actress Vicki Lawrence. She will portray the irascible, aggressively cracker-brained character Mama, whom she played first on the Carol Burnett Show and later on her own sitcom Mama's Family, in a series of light but straight-talking television commercials on themes such as union organizing, foreign takeovers and brand boycotts. Lawrence, a Reagan Republican, signed a one-year, $150,000 contract with the anti...
...column continuous still in the retrofitted Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Benson, Minn.--using wheat and rye grown by nearby farmers--Shakers' four flavors of vodka racked up about $4 million in sales in 17 states in 2004. Now the brand is going national. "It's a real cracker of a spirit," says F. Paul Pacult, editor of the Spirit Journal, a trade newsletter, "one of the hottest brands around." --By Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis
...most horrifying images every committed to celluloid leap off the screen, including Liv Tyler bemoaning her father’s sacrificial heroics and Ben Affleck crying. One sequence, however, stands out as eliciting a primordial fear in literally every audience member. In the scene, Affleck playfully animates an animal cracker “crawling” across Tyler’s exposed mid-section to an undisclosed location. But we’ve all seen Child’s Play. Bay deftly blankets the sequence with attractive, flirtatious cinematography, but the sinister gaze of the animal cracker rules the mise...