Word: godiva
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...eatery offers snacks from bagels to Godiva chocolates and drinks from Nantucket Nectars to specialty blends from the Republic of Tea. (The discriminating tea connoisseur can choose from the exotic Dragon Well, advertised as ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu's Tea, to the more mundane Earl Grey.) For $1.25, a weary English concentrator can grab a regular cup of coffee to perk up before glancing through Cliffs Notes to Jane Austen's Emma, which can be found on the third floor...
...sound can't be captured on tape. No scientific instrument, regardless how sensitive, can detect it. But for millions of chocolate lovers, the nagging call of a Godiva bar or a Hershey's Kiss is as loud and impossible to ignore as an air-raid siren. It can't simply be that the stuff tastes good. So do popcorn and pizza, but the words popaholic and pizzaholic haven't forced their way into the lexicon the way chocoholic has. Chocolate doesn't just tingle the tongue: it makes people feel good in some fundamental, undefinable...
...first born, but never mind. The guidelines do permit "nominal gifts" from nonfriends, but in the absence of a dollar amount, explains Representative Jim McDermott, the ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, he can only respond item by item: Bic pen, yes; Montblanc, no. Whitman's Sampler, yes; Godiva chocolates, no. Receptions are O.K., if the spread goes light on the four major food groups. Hors d'oeuvres are of nominal value, but roast beef will get you in trouble with the Meal Police...
...convention last month of the Florida Federation of Republican Women, Dole organizers replaced the customary canapes with shrimp, sliced lobster tails and strawberries dipped in white and dark chocolate to look as though dressed in tuxedoes, nesting beneath a cream-puff tree. For party favors, there were Godiva chocolates and Crabtree & Evelyn bath oil--not to mention a live band and a male ballroom dancer, available for waltzing...
...busy writing letters to and meeting with President Neil L. Rudenstine during the search for a successor to outgoing Dean John H. McArthur. Ideas about the qualities for the new dean are abundant, rampant--and above all, as assorted and extravagant as the cremes in a box of Godiva...