Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covered with red patent leather. She neither drinks nor smokes, but she eats like a woman thrice her weight, which is 125 Ibs. The kitchen is a self-service delicatessen heavily stocked with matzo brie, gefilte fish, grapefruit wedges, kosher salami, pickled beets, tzimmes, caviar, corn fritters, brownies, ice-cream rolls, cottage cheese, sweet potatoes, and enough frozen chicken TV dinners to pave the Piazza San Marco...
Against Post Harvard's lead was cut to 8-7 in the final period, but Bassett scored an unassisted goal to restore a two-goal margin. Ames then hit Williams with two quick passes to ice the game...
...sightings of abominable snowmen. They have seriously reported salamanders that came to life after being frozen solid for 5,000 years; a semiconductor device that gives out more energy than is fed into it; a monster that leaves tracks on the bottom of the ocean; a heavy mass of ice that fell from space and did not melt; a mysterious force pervading the universe that makes all revolving bodies, such as Earth, take on a heartlike shape...
...frontality of Thiebaud's figures (see opposite page) outdoes that of the Sphinx. Each personage-a hulking pro football player, symmetrical in size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone-juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background. The whiteness helps isolate the image; the garish fluorescent lighting that commercialism loves bathes everything in its frigid glare. Thiebaud makes long, curling highlights out of polychromatic contours that do not exist outside...
WHEN Howard Brennan Johnson was six, he went to work for his father, the founder of the ice-cream chain; he and Sister Dorothy, 8, beamed down from billboards proclaiming that "We love our daddy's ice cream." Now 32, Johnson still works for Daddy-but he is about to become his own boss. Last week he announced that in June Howard Dearing Johnson, now 67, will retire as chief executive of the nation's largest restaurant chain-675 restaurants, 175 motor lodges and annual sales of $127 million-to let his son take over. Young Johnson went...