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High school students in pea coats and loafers dragged around by their mothers one directs straight to 8 Garden Street without blinking; and even their requests for somewhere good but not too expensive to eat one is slowly able to fulfill. Are they vegetarian? Do they want hearty American fare, or are they willing to try something more exotic? Then one’s interlocutors start becoming more esoteric. Without even a greeting, a young German girl stops one in front of Lamont to ask: “What famous people went here?” After replying with what...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Grow in the Knowledge of Trivia | 4/6/2004 | See Source »

...Bravo chatter. "No on the workaholic. If you're passionate about something, then it doesn't feel like work, does it?" She fine-tunes her style radar by reading "every magazine known to mankind" and keeps a constant watch on what everybody's wearing. Bravo herself wears a red pea coat and a chocolate zebra-skin tote, both Burberry. "I love the red and the brown together. And isn't this great?" she asks about the bag. "It's so convenient because it opens wide," she says, and in that single exhortation reveals the secret of her success: this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1 Rose Marie Bravo | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...started a tiny catalog business selling suits made by a New Hampshire sample maker out of fabric Matthias bought retail. The first catalog brought in $3,000 in sales. Last year the enterprise, which now includes 1,000 stores in three price ranges (Motherhood, Mimi Maternity and A Pea in the Pod), grossed half a billion dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expect the Best | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...Princess and the Pea will be performed in the Radcliffe Yard Sunken Garden at 4 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, 12 and 1 p.m. on Saturday and 2 and 3 p.m. on Sunday...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fairy Tale Told in a Sunken Garden | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...Queen tries to test Lilybell by placing a pea under her mattress, but the prince’s servant and rapper, Pea-Ditty, manages to confuse the Queen’s henchmen into putting him under the mattress instead. He wakes the potential princess so she can pass the test, and they all live happily ever after—except for the henchmen, who get fired, and the Queen, who must sleep on the royal couch for some weeks to come...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fairy Tale Told in a Sunken Garden | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

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