Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unflappable-host-and-hostess grins and became panting haute cuisine speed freaks. Getting the ice cream out of the molds and onto the gateau genoise only took a moment, and we beat and we beat and as the laughter of the dinner party increased out beyond the doors, the egg whites refused to form their coveted stiff shiny peaks. We beat and we beat, and our guests' voices became louder and at the same time, somehow, farther off. There was music now, and singing...
...that's thrown at him, that says something about the kid's comfort with his body, or his conflict about aggression." That conflict, Psychiatrist Lawrence Salvesen of Massachusetts General Hospital believes, often comes out in a child's fantasy that he is either "superman or super-egg (exceptionally fragile)." Mike relieves a child's anxiety, Salvesen explains, by teaching him that he can neither destroy nor be destroyed in an ordinary fight. To Psychiatrist Joae Selzer of Boston, the key is Mike himself, "one of those charismatic, enthusiastic, down-to-earth people, who does things right...
...subject matter, they looked at me as if I was a nut. So I said, why not contribute something, and they said, what are you-some kind of hip overseer? I said no, that I didn't think you had to be a chicken to talk about an egg, but that I was acknowledging their special expertise. Ya know, how they were chickens...
...Downing egg nog with Ernie...
...EVEN cooler, Miami night. Cars slither up and down Collins Avenue, making those whoosh sounds that cars seem to make only when there is a beach nearby. Inside, big flower arrangements, place-cards, mounds of chicken liver, egg rolls, glasses clinking, uncles running around flashing Instamaties, loud laughter, embraces...