Word: dessertation
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What's left for an encore when a team mainly composed of freshmen cops so many honors in their first season? Though the Ivy League title and the Seven Sisters trophy would make a delicious dessert, those accolades will probably take more time and a few more freshman transfusions...
Dinner was finished. Because they had eaten so well, the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Frans Bergs in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht were granted a favorite treat for dessert: big, golden Jaffa oranges from Israel. Unexpectedly, the children complained about the taste. "When we took a closer look," Mrs. Bergs said later, "we discovered small, silver-colored globules inside." The children were rushed to a hospital to have their stomachs pumped; police summoned to investigate erroneously assumed that Mr. Bergs had tried to poison his family. But Dutch health officials began a nationwide search, and by week...
...tons of food and drink flown in for the postcoronation feast included cases of Chateau-Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in. The dessert: a green, seven-tier cake complete with half a dozen doves that flew out to hover over the imperial plate...
...those in the know--grappled with Important Issues, like racial prejudice (Finnian's Rainbow) other cultures (The King and I), utopia found and lost (Camelot) and the Nazi rise to power (Cabaret). It was good, workmanlike entertainment, done with zeal and finesse, an enjoyable evening with drinks before and dessert after. The Kirkland House production of The Fantasticks is cast in this mold and wavers tantalizingly close to success by its standards...
First he told me about the return of Jim Curry, who has the kinda talent that attracts proscouts to Cambridge. That's for his passcatching. Jim punts and kicks field goals for dessert...