Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accuse the Harvard women's lacrosse team of scheduling cream puffs...
...They usually get really excited when I tell them about the ice cream," says Arnold, referring to the story that Harvard had to offer students ice cream at every lunch and dinner before Mary Widener would donate funds for the library...
GIMME A BAGEL SHMEER," IS HOW generations of New Yorkers have ordered breakfast. It's Gotham for, "A gracious good morning to you. May I have a bagel with a bit of cream cheese, please?" Though the bagel arrived in America with Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s, until a few years ago, most of the country hadn't enjoyed this half-boiled, half-baked, half-crunchy, half-chewy half-roll...
...analyst at New York's Schroder Wertheim & Co. In the battle of the bagels, alas, authenticity may not matter, he says. "If they like it, that's all that counts." Inevitably, too many stores will collide in too many places, creating the now familiar shake-out. But until then, cream-cheese makers would be advised to crank up production. --Reported by Soozhana Choi/Washington, Wendy Cole/Chicago and Jenifer Mattos/New York
Some of the faithful will have to be content with the catalog, which was published last week. It is a thick paragon of low-intensity salesmanship: plain cream cover, small gray type, no objet d'art staring from it--which is only proper, since what Sotheby's is selling is spiritual contact. Some 100,000 copies are available, at $90 (hardback) and $45 (soft). This print run will probably take care of the cost of the color plates, which are many and which reproduce such treasures as Lot 924, "A Set of Six French Stoneware Butter Pots, Modern," estimate...