Word: grapes
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After the performances, ticketholders can sample ethnic foods from booths in the Great Hall. The Armenian Club will provide kusta, an Armenian dish made with bulgur wheat, scallions and coriander. Baklava, small meatballs, and stuffed grape leaves will grace the Hellenic Society's booth, and the Scottish dancers will offer shortbread. Eight other groups will also share ethnic delicacies...
Forget the Chablis, the spritzers, the Perrier with lime. In many chic U.S. watering holes, the era of the grape and designer water seems to have gone out with the bull market. Instead, aging baby boomers are rediscovering the sharp, cold sting of an icy, dry martini. "A whole generation has become bored reciting 'I'll have a glass of white wine,' and then having something set in front of them that tastes foul and has no kick," explains Ed Moose, proprietor of the Washington Square Bar & Grill in San Francisco. "Young people are switching," concurs Bruno Mooshei, owner...
...this isn't an achievement. I've missed the slower, simpler life of the South. I liked living in a place where everybody knew everybody. I wanted clean air, trees, Grape Nehi, and tadpoles. Looking for the simple life, I'd visit my sister in Maine. But it wasn't the same...
Each age group also has a week's menu of specially-designed activities. Alumni children are divided into five "color" groups, according to age. While returning classmates attend cocktail parties, symposia, and concerts, the youngest "grape" group children will visit the Big Apple Circus, and the college-aged "blue" group will dance at The Metro club...
...year is 1964. At her mansion in Orlando, Margery Post, the immensely rich only child of the man who invented Grape-Nuts, asks a friend, "Milly, if you had one place on earth where you finally felt comfortable, would you let the Disneys build a park in your backyard?" Milly happens to be a trusted associate of the ice cream and motel magnate Howard Johnson, who is also in Orlando, hoping to stop the Disneys. "I think we could take them," he tells her. "I think we can move into vacations...