Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dish over with quickly. Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is a drug- addicted actress whose mother, Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine), was a big musical comedy star with a drinking problem and whose singer-father walked out when Suzanne was a child. Actress Carrie Fisher, author of the novel and screenplay Postcards from the Edge, is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. But it shouldn't matter whether this wonderful comedy is really about famous people who make life tough for themselves and the ones they love most. It's like worrying whether a historical Hamlet really lusted after...
...slid a tray down a school cafeteria line remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted, but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the company's fast food...
...shops in urban centers, a visitor might think himself in the wrong country. Here a Benetton, there a Chloe, a Chanel, farther along a Giorgio Armani, a Fendi, a Valentino. The name of every other restaurant seems to begin with le or la, and every other menu includes a dish or two from faraway places. Better off than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised...
Local prosecutors have also learned that they can flex their muscles on a national scale, shutting down interstate porn operators by bringing them to trial in conservative localities. The New York-based Home Dish Satellite Network once beamed X-rated films on its American Exxxtasy Channel to 30,000 subscribers around the country. It was driven into bankruptcy earlier this year after a district attorney in Montgomery County, Ala. -- where 30 households received the service -- brought criminal charges against the company's officers for violating the state's anti-obscenity laws...
...fiancee mailed him a package of his favorite tobacco, ending a three-month attempt at quitting his sheesha. A sheesha is an elaborate water pipe, with a glass bowl base, topped by brass fittings called 'alb al-sheesha, or "heart of the sheesha." "Above this fans out a copper dish that serves to catch any coals or ash falling from the haggar or "stone." Smoke is drawn through the lay (hose) which is connected to the 'alb al-sheesha...