Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gourmet (and only the gourmet) has baffled my Harvard friends from day one. By an unhappy coincidence, my 18th birthday coincided with the first day of classes freshman year: my mother saved me from dining hall misery by setting up a Fedex account and air-mailing me an apricot pie (to the astonishment of my roommates). This was but the first in a long series of misunderstandings by my friends...
...years Alessandrini has been having his cream pie and throwing it too. Subverting Broadway's hit tunes with wickedly irreverent parody lyrics, he has created a series of satirical revues that skewer musical theater. This latest edition is one of his sharpest yet. Here, a protean cast of four derides Disney's Lion King in The Circle of Mice. Footloose? Screwloose. Best of all is Alessandrini's new take on the decade-old Les Mis, which offers up dread-inspiring thoughts in the number Ten Years More. Even Victor Hugo would chuckle...
...minds of shoppers and investors this holiday season. Internet consumers will buy $3.5 billion worth of goods in the last three months of this year, and $7.8 billion for the year, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass. That's a thin slice of the overall retailing pie, but it's growing fast--projected to reach $32 billion in five years...
Still, it's likely Ray Kroc would have moved on to something else if he had found a better idea. Even after McDonald's was well established, Kroc still tried, often with dismal results, to move forward with upscale hamburger restaurants, German-tavern restaurants, pie shops and even theme parks, like Disneyland. He always had a keen sense of the power of novelty and a strong belief in himself and his vision...
...basic human need to lick the beaters. And cooking engages me on a intellectual as well as emotional level: that rapid stirring can turn a bunch of powders and some well-placed margarine into the stuff of life (in its fully evolved forms of croissants, cookies and delicate pie crusts) seems nothing less than a miracle. Kneading and a little yeast outdo the best philosophy papers at bringing the abstract to life...