Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just discovered a new taste sensation: try chewing on some regular-flavored Extra sugar-free gum before diving into your White Rum ice cream from Herrell's, and you wind up with a taste that smacks vaguely of--yum--mayonnaise...
...love stories have happy endings, surviving even the first-year formal. "Things went very well, and we've been going out since the week before the formal," sighs one lovestruck junior. Despite this seeming bliss, the man refused to leave his name, so perhaps all is not peaches and cream. "Things are weird right now. Our relationship is very up in the air," he says...
...Islam's bow-tied young soldiers. They can be contemptuous of civil liberties -- a former Washington chief of police says, "They want to operate outside the law" -- but they are undeniably effective at chasing away crime and drugs in communities where nothing else works. Charles Manso has sold ice cream and sundries for 20 years from a battered white truck on a desolate corner in northeast Washington, an area without grocery stores, barbershops, even Laundromats. "There used to be shootings all the time," he says. "Drug dealers used to surround my truck. The Muslims keep them away...
...Samson and Delilah, Anna Moffo's delivery of the single word disvelto in Verdi's Rigoletto) and even the oral (in a discussion of opera as addictive behavior, he calls listening to an entire opera the equivalent of locking himself in the bathroom to eat a quart of ice cream) and the olfactory (the unmistakable smell of his parent's wood stereo cabinet...
...classmate, Mr. Yoon, witnessed the identical series of events and believes they can. He states that students at the College were "the cream of their high school classes" and have "certainly never had to cheat for their grades. "Yet most of these students had never faced classes graded as harshly or workloads as intense before coming to Harvard. And a significant number of students probably must attribute a fair amount of their past and present success to skillful cheating...