Word: flavorings
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...sort of people who trade in hard currencies and Western jazz records on the famous black market there in a vain effort to relieve the pervading drabness. The thought that the secret police may be crashing round the edges of an East-meets-West romance adds the faintest imaginable flavor of suspense to this bowl of borsch. Actually, the only thing to be said for the locale is that when the Russians find people behaving as tiresomely as Miss Hawn, they haul them into court, charge them with parasitism, and sentence them to stiff terms in Siberia. Americans probably ought...
Down the street a piece is the controversial Harvard Square Baskin-Robbins at 1230 Mass Ave. More than 400 of the national chain's flavors rotate through this store, with at least 31 showcased at one time. Each month an absolutely new flavor is offered, which is sort of alarming if you think about it. Particularly memorable flavors are bubble gum and peanut butter and jelly. The cones are very small and though a single scoop is still 30 cents, the double and triple scoops have this month gone up to 55 and 75 cents respectively. You can't beat...
...poverty of research. The professors treat their audience like a class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing the Best Book of the Bible (Job), the World's Best Restaurant (France's Pyramide), the Best College at Oxford (Magdalen), the Best Flavor of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream (Mandarin Chocolate). Such judgments are ideal for those who would rather sample the wine label than the wine. But even these insecure customers can find little solace in The Best. Many of its items are mere common sense (the Best Chess Player Other Than Bobby Fischer: Boris...
Patients have been saying it for years: Hospital food is wretchedly prepared and totally lacking in flavor. Now a noted nutritionist adds a more serious complaint. Dr. Charles E. Butterworth Jr., director of the nutrition program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and chairman of the A.M.A.'s Council on Foods and Nutrition, charges that hospital diets are often inadequate to maintain a patient's health-and sometimes so bad as to actually worsen it. "I suspect," writes Butterworth in Nutrition Today, "that one of the largest pockets of unrecognized malnutrition in America exists not in rural...
...year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis on preserving the flavor-and safety-of Minneapolis' old neighborhoods...