Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many Californians attend traffic class (T.C.) after getting tickets that now they can choose from a number of entertaining forms of driver re- education: Pizza T.C., Gourmet Lunch T.C., and even Comedy T.C., where a Robin Williams videotape is shown. Next: Self-Defense T.C., the Rodney King variation...
...same will do just fine. Maybe the tunes are less ersatz Beatles than upscale Archies: gourmet bubble gum. Maybe some of the lyrics took less time to write than they do to sing. Maybe the entire album marks Ringo's retreat to the simple life. But to this battered ear, the stuff sounds like music. The highlight is the mesmeric thumper After All These Years, Ringo's anthem to "traveling the world in a rock 'n' roll band. It's in my blood! It's in my blood!" Ours too. This is retro-rock to stir any '60s survivor. Rise...
They were two chicken fajitas from McDonald's that unlikeliest of sources for gourmet cooking. Julia Child, I suppose, would faint at the thought that chicken fajitas at McDonald's would be more satisfying than medallions of chicken wrapped in ham and covered in an orange cream sauce. But my mission had been accomplished, and my traveling companions were treated to a satisfied silence...
Upstairs at the Pudding, a gourmet restaurant in the building, originally served only club members but is now an independent business. The club occasionally holds functions there...
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. And I'm not quite sure what to give him. I could cook him a gourmet dinner and read him John Donne by candlelight...