Word: meals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wicked social comedy. For days after his curate's arrival, Joe goes through an ordeal of embarrassed detective work in search of the key fact he had failed to learn about the young priest: his name. When the curate's trendy seminary pals come to the rectory for a meal, they grate on Joe by questioning the rule of celibacy and saying they wish they could celebrate Mass with a beer mug or a coffee cup. Joe snaps at them: "Life's not a cookout by Brueghel the Elder...
...call it taxes). But in the Balkanized G.O.P. of 1988, Bush had to get a large share of Reagan loyalists to win the nomination. And he had to reassure other voters still mesmerized by the Free Lunch illusion that he would not be presenting a large bill for the meal. Hence his early and oft-made pledge: "I am not going to raise your taxes -- period...
...swank estate, and the maid pulled a gun on me the size of a howitzer." Balfour adds, "The White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds' dad, in Jupiter ((Fla.)), gave me a meal." Then there was the time Hogan donned a gorilla costume and checked into an empty cage at the Baltimore Zoo, with the help of authorities. Sufficiently sauced, Hogan nearly suffocated under the suit, but no one would pay attention to him until he hurled bananas at the crowd. Finally, a kid screamed...
...problems in new autos. The U.S. Government last year invested $40 million in neural-network research, according to market analysts. Eventually, proponents say, the new technology will lead to computers that can reprogram themselves to deal with any contingency, in situations ranging from directing combat to planning a sumptuous meal...
Catch the "Murder at Rutherford House", a new concept in Broadway performances. A shot is heard and a body is dropped, and when the clues start arriving, so does the meal. Tickets for this so called bargain of the month are $32.50 and $26.30 for students. Performances Fri. and Saturday at 8 p.m., and matinees on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. 246 Tremont St., Boston. Telephone...