Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over 1.2 million tourists visit Cambridge annually, leaving a minimum of $1 billion in the city's economy. In a city where Harvard is by far the biggest visitor draw, shops around the Square scramble to get a piece of the tourist pie...
...able to put ass to cushion and finger to channel-changer flip through nearly 100 channels is as American as apple pie. Cable Television is a staple in nearly every household and college dorm room in America. Why should the Harvard houses be the exception? Every Harvard resident should be able to watch Ab and Magnus hoist compact cars over their heads or buy a limited edition Joan Rivers hairpin on the Home Shopping Network. Fiddling with the antenna for five channels went out of style with the rotary phone and leaded gasoline...
...call [transgenderism] something as normal as apple pie does a great injustice to children as well as adults," says Socarides, who is president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality...
...oddly anachronistic touches): "I am a maker of matches, the human kind"--that's for clarity's sake--"where people get together, get married and live happily ever after." He then proceeds to reassure his viewers that this ambitious project of long-term matchmaking can be measured quantitatively with pie charts and line graphs...
...Food is also feeling like a hit. The weekend it opened, all eyes were on DreamWorks' $70 million first feature, The Peacemaker (George Clooney! Nuclear terrorism!). But when the box-office numbers were tallied, a little-heralded African-American family drama named Soul Food (Irma P. Hall! Sweet-potato pie!) had not only grabbed the No. 3 position with $11.2 million in ticket sales but had also scored the highest per-screen average of any film in wide release: $8,363. And by last Thursday, Soul Food had taken in $3 million more, bringing its gross to more than...