Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diner/ Nothing could be finer." Well, almost. Each table is dressed with linen cloth and napkins, heavy silverware and a vase of three fresh yellow chrysanthemums. The fare runs to excellent Southern fried chicken with cream gravy, roast beef and steak; there are hot breads and lemon pie. One couple does object testily when the steward is unable to produce a corkscrew for the bottle of Moulin-á-Vent '76 they had brought to table. It turns out that the train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned...
...Dykstra, who won an Academy Award for the special effects of Star Wars, working the same magic every Sunday at 8 p.m. Vega$ will follow the adventures of a handsome young private eye "in that sizzling city of beautiful women and gambling men," says ABC, while Taxi and Apple Pie are billed as comedies about taxi drivers and zany Americans, in that order. Lest anyone get the characters confused, the shows are scheduled for different nights. The only non-Silverman entry is titled Mork & Mindy, which need only be as funny as its press release: "A being from the planet...
...these corporations (.4 per cent of the non-white work force). Besides ignoring the fact that low wages and inhuman work conditions are only one small aspect of apartheid, this argument rests on a strange logic that rejects one strategy because it manipulates such a small wedge of the pie, then embraces another which involves a wedge that is even smaller by a factor of about six. But, they argue, American corporations "might" set a good example which national companies could follow. This is naively optimistic for several reasons...
...group of female law students paid $50 for a creme pie, which they threw in the face of Howard Gutman, a first-year law student whom the auctioneer called a notorious male chauvinist. However, the auctioneer said, "Gutman isn't really a male chauvinist, he's just a good sport...
...agreed to have the pie thrown in my face because I thought it would look really, good on my resume for med school," Gutman said...