Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...News fails to rank a crucial category, and one that Harvard would also dominate: quality of local ice cream parlors...
Harvard is surrounded by world-class ice cream joints. At a university which is required by some ancient and sacred pact to serve ice cream with at least one meal a day, students still find the best offerings off campus. Blessing is piled atop cold, creamy blessing at such local establishments as Baskin Robbins, Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, and Scoops and Beans...
...Cambridge, you will not find the 1990s equivalent of Hokey-Pokey--the cheap ice cream sold by street vendors until the 1920's at a penny a lump. The trend among Harvard Square vendors is to offer more expensive, home-made, gourmet ice creams...
...first stop of The Crimson Ice Cream Tour bucked that trend. Baskin Robbins, a 31-flavor American institution, managed--like the Au Bon Pain down the street--to dodge Harvard Square's ban on fastfood chains...
Valeri Matashenko used to be a waiter at a state-owned restaurant in Moscow. Now he sells ice cream and loads delivery trucks on the streets of the capital. Matashenko, 38, concedes that his present occupation may lack prestige, but it enables him to earn enough for his family. It has also instilled in him a fundamental respect for free enterprise, reflected in his choice of candidates. "I'm for Yavlinsky," he declares. "He is more radical, and I think he can do what he says about the economy. Yeltsin has a reputation that's not good...