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...becoming more of a burden than a pleasure. One cannot escape the tendency to read the nutritional content on the back of food packages. One cannot resist asking whether the muffins are regular, low-fat or fat-free. One cannot help but pat a slice of pizza with a napkin. In short, one cannot eat without some efforts at fat reduction, without worrying. The result is that eating fat-free and eating care-free are mutually exclusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '(Fat-)Free at Last!' | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

Throw in uncomfortable gym-induced wedgies, bumbling exchanges with celebrities, a provincial midwestern upbringing, a suspicious sanitary napkin ("about the size of a Depends undergarment"), and you have the raw and sometimes hilariously raunchy narrative materials of Kron's 101 Humiliating Stories, a solo comedic performance in the A.R.T.'s Fall Festival...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Squirming as Lisa Kron Eats Crow at Loeb | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

...recommended technique is to launch thebutter with a belt or cloth napkin. On specialdinner days, helium balloons work as well. "I sawsome guys do it," say one enthusiastic first-year."They weighted the balloon, and put butter on thetop...

Author: By Ann D. Schiff, | Title: harvardian superstitions | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

Matt proposes in typically adorably awkward fashion, "I was thinking maybe you'd want to get married." He offers her his mother's napkin ring, explaining that he knew she wouldn't go for the "big diamond" thing. This scene is absurd enough to be reminiscent of your own life, while still lacking that tiresome Nora Ephron-y-this-dialogue-is-so-real-you-would-have-s aid-it-yourself-if-only-Meg-Ryan-hadn't-come-out-w ith-it-first flavor...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: Flight to `Miami' Offers Love With a Woody Allen Bite | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...will miss the days when you could take a napkin and wipe off all the grease," said Kevin C. Murphy '97 as he stood in line at a few minutes past midnight to buy his final slices of pizza from the current regime...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Newest Tommy's Owners Move in | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

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