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...divorce rates rise and young people wait longer to get married, more and more Americans are living and eating alone. Rather than sit down to a feast each night, they often choose to heat and eat a Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than...
...gifts are not anonymous; they are not mysterious. They are anticipated, expected. These undergraduates are devoted and attached. Unlike the medieval European tradition where young men drew the names of women from a sealed box and were paired up only for one day in celebration of an ancient Roman feast, these couples are intending to be paired. For life...
CHESTNUT HILL--The Harvard women's hockey team enjoyed a post-Thanksgiving feast of cold Eagle last night, devouring an outmatched Boston College squad, 11-0, before 20 disgruntled spectators at McHugh Forum...
...feast spread by director Douglas G. Fitch '81-'82 in his new production, Potluck Supper, is so rich in dramatic delicacies that it satisfies even the most discriminating palate. So it is with a burp and a goblet raised in toast that we hail the most inspired piece of dramatic lunacy in recent memory--a performance art extravaganza that should not be missed...
...sunstruck prose: "Her round face was a moon watching over the vast territorial imperatives of her body." Even so, Bradbury remains a conjurer, and whenever his plot or prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they remain recognizable members of that unending...