Word: fettucini
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Secure in the belief that this letter contained no threat to the Lampoon's time-honored tradition of having group sex in large vats of fettucini, I opened...
...Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching a chef. Each food station around the reception room creates an environment. The sushi bar. Or the taco bar. Or fettucini Alfredo. There's drama, action in front of the guest...
...floor, and play Trivial Pursuit all evening. I guess what's significant is that Trivial Pursuit just hit Memphis about a month ago." Comments an employee at an advertising agency: "You ask me about nightclubs? There are no nightclubs in Memphis. My God, we just heard of fettucini here in June...
Pausing between his antipasto and a large plate of fettucini for one of the five cigarettes he smokes during dinner, he reflects on his image. He is a young man of 34 preaching hellacious economic sermons to other Cabinet members and congressional committee chairmen old enough to be his father. Neither his prematurely gray hair nor his earnest manner adds any years to his appearance. "If this thing doesn't work," he concludes, "I know I'll get the blame." Then he shrugs. "So I'll go to something else...
...FIRST ACT has several big strikes against it. The main one is the book, which is basically a stinker. It's not the plot, which, as is usual with a Hasty Pudding Show, is as easy to track as a follow-the-fettucini puzzle, not is it the cast of characters whose names are, as usual in a Pudding Show, very funny: Juana deBoise, Ophelia Heartbeat, Manual Dexterite, Sonya Vabitzsche, Della Tory. It's just that the thousands of little jokes--the troops of mice that are expected to drag the Pudding's great gilded carriage--are less tonight...