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...remembered my trip to the ice cream store, sweet victory. They put on a front there, too. "Harvard, Columbia? They're both wusses. Oh. You're from Harvard? They are very intellectual schools," said Lorie, as she scooped me a peanut butter and jelly tofutti...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Intuition Says Harvard | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

...theTennessee sour-mash whisky maker. "In the past two years, we have had so much adverse publicity about the effects of hard liquor, it is almost like having Prohibition back." His worry is premature. According to Gavaler, phytoestrogen is also prevalent in wheat, rice and hops, as well as peanut, soybean and olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirits: Real Men Don't Drink Bourbon? | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...other women's matches it could show. As a result, many people are unaware of the good humor with which she conducts her business. Her ferocious style makes it seem like she is "beating up all those innocent young girls," as she wryly puts it. Not so, says Peanut Louie: "It looks like she's having fun playing tennis. Even if you get murdered you don't feel so bad." In short, Navratilova is anything but a diesel truck steaming heedlessly toward immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best of All Time? | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

While available in plain vanilla, Tofutti best masks the aftertaste of its novel ingredient with strident flavors such as banana-pecan and forest maple. In Texas, the bestseller is made by swirling peanut butter and chocolate flavors together into something that tastes like a Reese's Cup. Aficionados swear Tofutti is better than ice cream. Says one: "If you eat it too fast, you even get the headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's Trendy, Tasty and Tofutti | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...ball game this year. Everything depends on it," concedes a top Reagan aide. Imagery is fragile. Jimmy Carter seemed refreshingly down-home in his blue jeans and cardigan until inflation rocketed and the Ayatullah Khomeini seized Iran and the hostages; then he looked to many like a peanut farmer in over his head. Reagan cuts a fine figure at ceremonies, but in hard times he might seem much too blithe and out of touch. The Democrats will argue, of course, that hard times are looming, that the big deficit and rising interest rates presage economic disaster. "The fear factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yankee Doodle Candidate | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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