Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cream Bash atmosphere of Grafton has gotten stale, head toward Winthrop Street and find a place that truly merits its name. In fact, everything from the tablecloths to the Blues Brothers poster and the server's nail polish is blue...
...walking down the main street of Sevilla, choked with orange city buses and white taxis, you suddenly come upon the cathedral, rising with ancient majesty over the Irish pubs and Heladerias (ice cream shops) around it. Its construction spanned a century (I forget which, though I did take the tour) in the Middle Ages, and beside it stands the Giralda, a Moorish tower that is even older. Its flying buttresses arch against the blue sky like a tangible dream of medieval times, the proverbial Spanish castle, its grey stone begrimed with the sweat of 20th century traffic...
...defeat Rutgers in their annual football match-up. She insisted that we play the point spread and after consulting with my father, I accepted her terms. On the fateful Saturday, the Nittany Lions made the spread and I enjoyed my first gambling profits in the form of an ice cream sundae...
...Once upon a time that was true," the Spinmaster nodded. "I remember during Watergate, when Johnny Carson made a joke about Richard Nixon's favorite ice cream: 'imPEACHment.' That was a real clue that the public had turned. And all those jokes about Gerry Ford's clumsiness and Dan Quayle's stupidity made those images stick...
BRUSSELS: Much better than "flaming": Bill Gates, emperor of the information age, was laid low in Brussels today with a low-tech social leveler: a cream pie full in the face as Gates entered an ornate hall in Brussels for meetings with Belgian computer industry and government leaders. The clearly peeved Gates was quickly hustled to a side room for cleanup, but emerged no happier. "We regret the incident (but) will not press charges," said a spokesman for Microsoft's Belgian office...