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...women's college, consists of a "plain gravy soup," stringy beef "with its attendant greens and potatoes--a homely trinity," prunes "exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth for eighty years and yet not given to the poor," custard to mitigate the prunes and biscuits so dry as to require jugs of water to wash them down. After this unsettling meal, she speculates, "We are all probably going to heaven, and Vandyck is, we hope, to meet us round the next corner--that is the dubious and qualifying state...
Success is hardly evident from id's unpretentious headquarters next to a Ford dealer. True, it's the biggest building in town--seven stories--and game architect John Romero's custard-yellow Ferrari leaps out among the pickups and sedans in the parking lot. (It looks better beside the mostly marble, gargoyle-graced home he just built.) And yes, John Carmack, id's president and chief visionary, is having his own Ferrari custom built from parts. But the dress code is shorts and T shirts, as set by the ponytailed Romero, who at 28 is the eldest partner...
After the lunch of salad, chicken, and a fruit and custard dessert, Streisand was dropped off at Johnston Gate by her motorcade. She spoke with Carnesale in Massachusetts Hall, stopping to sign the guest book on the same page as Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who visited Harvard two weeks...
Richard Dooling is impartially derisive in his caustic second novel, White Man's Grave (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 386 pages; $22). He chucks a custard pie at every face that shows itself. There's Randall Killigan, an Indianapolis attorney who glories in the dismemberment allowed by bankruptcy law: the wrenching of great financial chunks from the carcasses of not-quite-dead companies. And there's young Boone Westfall, newly employed to reject legitimate claims at his father's sleazy insurance company. "Why do you think they call it work?" Dad asks, when Boone objects that cheating widows and orphans is tedious...
...most memorable of those rendezvous were held over Boston Cream Pie, without a doubt the human creation closest to the food of the gods. It has everything: Delicate, delicious, yellow cake, a creamy, custard filling, and chocolate all over...