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...name it and we make it!" is the motto of this post-modern ice cream distributor. Willing to give any flavor a try, Toscanini's is by far the most exotic ice cream distributor in the Cambridge area, offering such flavors as Guiness (beer flavored), Grape-Nut and basil ice cream. On the lighter side: mango sorbet/micro Sunday...

Author: By A.b. Osceola, | Title: The Great Ice Cream Debate | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...evolution. However, in other areas XTC's songs sound entirely fresh and vibrant. "Your Dictionary" has an ominous underlying piano part that gives way to sleigh bells and picture-perfect harmonies. The pastoral-like "Greenman" wouldn't be out of place at a jovial medieval formal dance, and "Fruit Nut" has an organ background that sounds like the theme music from a TV show on Nickelodeon. Apple Venus Vol.1 is a masterpiece of beautiful, engaging pop music. Perfect harmonies and lushly orchestrated songs promise to bring listeners to new levels of XTC. Annie K. Zaleski

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XTC | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...office complex in San Bruno, Calif., William McDonough saw it as a competition of ideas rather than for a contract. "Our idea," he says, "was that if a bird flew over the building, it would not know that anything had changed." If that sounds like pure eco-nut talk (I almost resist noting that McDonough is for the birds), try the question he puts to potential clients when he undertakes any of his architectural projects: "I ask, 'How do we love all children, all species, all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: WILLIAM MCDONOUGH: A Whole New World | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...what are kids doing to suck up? "We receive a dozen roses any number of times," Fitzsimmons says. Other gifts delivered to Byerly Hall include cakes, date and nut bread, carrot cakes and once even a chocolate Veritas shield. One eager senior, who apparently had not mastered the art of subtlety, sent a set of pencils with her name on it along with a picture proclaiming "admit me," just as a presidential candidate might...

Author: By A. M. Taub, | Title: Sucking Up, Getting In | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...person he doesn't seem like a nut. Rather, he comes across as an intelligent, engaging young man with a refreshing sense of humor about his obsessive commitment to some extremely strange ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From IPOs To UFOs | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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