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...American President had already practiced saxophone diplomacy twice before on his trip: once when he accepted a gift sax during the NATO summit in Brussels and then at a jazz club in Prague. The Russians handed him a third opportunity. Midway through an "informal" 22-dish dinner that included moose lips ("This was not a chocolate dessert," joked an American official), Yeltsin gave the President a five-inch blue-and-white porcelain figure of Clinton, one hand waving and the other clutching a saxophone. Suddenly -- but to no one's surprise -- a real one appeared, and Clinton rose...
...Louis, will you please tell your father to pass the pastry?" says the actress playing Ann, seated at the dining-room table. Louis, their middle-age son, obliges: "Dad, will you please pass the pastries to Mom?" Dad picks up the pastry dish and, smiling, gently places it next to his wife...
Every day, enormous mounds of soggy Lucky Charms, half-eaten apples and rubbery chicken pieces pile up in the dish rooms of Harvard's dining halls...
Every day, enormous mounds of banana peels, half-eaten apples and rubbery chicken pieces pile up in the dish rooms of Harvard's dining halls...
...raging satirist," the catalog calls Kelley, but satire, like revenge, is a dish best cooked by skeptical adults and then eaten cold, and it takes more than Irishness and a fixation on excrement to make a Dean Swift. Still, we need to be reminded that adolescence is a cultural construct, a pathological condition invented by and for Americans -- and Kelley, at least, does that...