Word: craig
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...Français has verve that Craig Claiborne calls "pyrotechnic." Its sauces have been described as "psychedelic." One hundred twenty gastronomes polled by Playboy magazine picked Le Francais as the No. 2 restaurant in the country (after Manhattan's grand palais de cuisine Lutece). Bon Appétit proclaimed Le Français "America's greatest restaurant." Almost from the day it opened in 1973, the nation's growing cadres of gourmets and gourmands have been journeying to Le Français, "like dedicated pilgrims," observed one Chicago critic, "on their way to a shrine." The cost...
...center of both E. T. and Poltergeist is the suburban family, as normal and American as Pop-Tarts. In Poltergeist, Dad (Craig T. Nelson), late 30s, sells tract houses, reads biographies of Ronald Reagan and furrows his brow to watch his hairline recede. Mom (Jobeth Williams), early 30s, keeps house, sings TV beer jingles and tucks in her son under a Star Wars bedspread. If this seems the derisory stuff of sitcoms, it is not. "I never mock suburbia," Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children...
Lastly, to have one quarter of the freshman class try to take a test that has been offered every week since Freshman Week the last week of the term is a sad commentary by any standards. Craig Werner '83 Core Assistant, Core Computer Requirement
Some customers collect the laces. Craig DeLongy, owner of a Champs Sport Shop in Florida, recalls one teen-age girl who spent $17 on ten sets of laces and $22 on a pair of shoes. DeLongy is already stocking up to meet expected back-to-school demand this fall. Says he: "I just placed an order for 140 dozen, and will place it again every three or four weeks...
Then along came Craig Stadler, a walrus who might become a king but is content being a cabbage. At 28, he is both a happy and a happy-go-lucky figure, bountifully blessed in life and golf at the moment, the way everything about him eventually tends to abundance. Stadler is as fat as Nicklaus ever was, but makes no apologies. "I enjoy being myself," he says...