Word: parfait
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dessert proved imperative, in spite of embarrassingly inflated waistbands and popped buttons. Amidst the traditional Key Lime Pie and Pecan Pie came the pernicious, though probably delicious, gesture towards chic--Praline Parfait and Flan. The Pecan Pie is served (naturally) piping hot, graced by silky, homemade vanilla ice cream so light it was almost ice milk. It was perfect. The Key Lime Pie was typically tart and sweet, graham crackery crust with sour flecks of lime rind...
...Internet itself. But all that changed with the advent last year of HotWired, the sassy online sister of Wired, and later of Pathfinder, Time Warner's mammoth collection of magazines-come-to-the-Net. Advertisers sensed new possibilities. And why not? The typical Internet user is a Madison Avenue parfait: mid-30s, hyper educated, mostly male, and with plenty of disposable income and free time...