Word: crusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to allocate a bit more to your late-night snack budget this fall. Tommy's Pizza, famous for staying open until 3 a.m., and for its not-quite-so-savory sesame-seed crust, has raised the price of a cheese slice to $1.50, 15 cents up from last year...
...former owner of the Sunnymede Mansion at 2 Old Glen Road was a genteel British woman, an Old World type who raised horses on the grounds and decorated its interior with Victorian furniture. She often invited neighbors over for tea and cucumber sandwiches, impressing them with her upper-crust authenticity. "She was such a lovely lady," says Elizabeth Smith, who lives just down the street. But a few years ago, the house changed hands, and last week the neighborhood learned that the current owner had, according to police, converted the beloved estate into an equally well-regarded bordello...
...skin cancers 20 years later. "The sun can do them in," Tomecki notes. Warning signs are new hard bumps on the skin that grow larger, and rough and irritated skin patches that do not heal; sometimes they have a pinkish border. Most moles are harmless, but if they grow crust or bleed, you should see a dermatologist...
...walls (check out the1908 baseball team's sexy knickerbockers).Footballs from long-forgotten Harvard-Yale games,ticket stubs from games back in '92 (that's 1892,mind you), and championship oars hang as remindersof past glory. A century-old Leavitt & Peirce adurges students to order their "class pipes." Anupper-crust masculinity oozes out of the walls...
...pettiness of the accusations speaks for itself. Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ads provoke particular ridicule, and while the idea is indeed amusing, they pay his rent. The scorn reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...