Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students can purchase a seven-day lunch and dinner contract for the recess period--March 29 through April 5--for $60 if they sign up for the program by March 18 in their house dining hall or at the Freshman Union. People on the plan also get brunch on April...
...Some people can study until 7 p.m. in thelibrary and then go to dinner," he said. "Theathletes can take a shower before coming home fordinner. Later dinner helps everybody...
...collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks in an underheated school auditorium; a family bickering over dinner about the squatters camping out on their farmland...
...author, a professional magician, has carefully researched his performers and their claims. All are authentic wonders, especially Max Malini, who could remain at a dinner table for hours, then lift his hat to reveal a large chunk of unmelted ice. A difficult act to follow, one would think, but Jay has scores of others just as weird and irresistible...
...columnists conspicuous for it, William F. Buckley and George F. Will. Buckley is the beneficiary of an oil-rich upbringing and a thorough grounding in Roman Catholic thought. Will's father was a college professor, and George was presumably encouraged to air his youthful opinions at the dinner table. After all, a columnist is expected to be wise on short notice, and is tempted to make judgments that are quick and flat, or they will leave no mark. Anyone who writes a column twice a week is unlikely to be rendered wordless by what he does not know...