Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fred Oram, the general manager at CPK, agreed that CPK and Bertucci's satisfy different markets. "Unlike Bertucci's, we're California from the crust...
Tiffany -- as I'm sure countless parents will argue -- is different. It sounds so mellifluous, so venerable, so upper-crust American. In the early 1960s, a pretty junior high classmate of mine served as a harbinger of the future by answering to Tiffany. Her we-should-have-seen-i t-coming destiny: a brief career as a braless starlet on a now forgotten TV sitcom...
...does WAC consider the logical second step in the campaign against final club elitism? Why do I get the feeling they won't be out there hunting up poor students to punch once they get their own feet in the door? According to Walton, the freshly selected female upper crust "would take with them their concerns about elitism." It seems to me that their only concern about the elite is whether they...
Jokes about the inefficiencies and convolutions of government bureaucracy are as American as, well, a crust-enclosed dessert filled with the fruit of deciduous Eurasian plants known as apple trees. The first two are gags that were probably old when Vice President Al Gore's father Albert Sr. was first elected to the Senate in 1952. Their antiquity indicates how deeply entrenched are the habits of bureaucratic bumbling, and the immense force of inertia that sustains them. The paperwork story was presented as fact by a Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice...
This from the guy who had a hit song called Friends in Low Places and who on his previous album, The Chase, sang, "When the last child cries for a crust of bread . . . When there's shelter over the poorest head/ We shall be free." In Pieces is well named; only parts of this album are up to Brooks' fine standard...