Word: dessertation
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Just four months ago, Governor William Weld signed legislation designating Boston cream pie as the official dessert of Massachusetts. But the state sweet tooth is not yet sated. Any day now, lawmakers may push forward on Senate Bill No. 1716, An Act Designating the Chocolate Chip Cookie as the Official Cookie of the Commonwealth. Then Weld will face the crunch of whether to sign or veto. (He is already on record as supporting the venerable Fig Newton.) Also on the menu: whether to make broccoli the official state vegetable...
...Whoever is on is always glad to put a cap on my cup of ice cream and stick it in a bag. Staffers also stick in a spoon and napkins, a thoughtful gesture. The bag is necessary because of my Raynaud's. Otherwise, I would be unable to transport dessert back to my dorm room...
...dessert. It's an after-dessert thing...
...WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON Uh-oh, it's Jell-O. This year the gelatin dessert has its 100th birthday, and so in June its hometown of LeRoy, New York, opens an exhibit that will be part of a permanent museum. Trivia fact: an electroencephalogram shows that a human brain and a bowl of quivering lime Jell-O have the same waves...
...energize" prospective ones, suggested that the White House offer jogging, golf or coffee with the President. He also named 10 big Democratic Party supporters who might be the first to jog, golf or coffee. Clinton, who leaped on the idea as if it were the last cupcake on the dessert cart, scribbled in further instructions: "Get other names at 100,000 or more, 50,000 or more...Ready to start overnights right away...