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...imagine a less attractive life-style for a young man just out of college than going back to Bismarck to live with his parents -- unless it's living with his brother in the suburbs of Chicago, which, naturally, is what I did. Mom at least bakes a mean cherry pie. Joe, on the other hand, got me into a permanent emotional headlock and found some way, every day, to give me psychic noogies. For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field...
...format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell Block. He insists the decision process is pure: "It's not that people nominate their friends. It's that their...
...recent Southern Picnic drew quite a fervent student response, too. "It's kind of insulting that they say we eat dirt down south," Texan Julia A. Kidd '98 remarks about the Union's so-called dirt cakes. Maybe HDS was thinking of Mud Pie, a dish that many are familiar with, but the dirt cakes were served with sand pudding instead. Kidd continues, "And what's with this catfish and slaw business? Nobody eats that. Plus, I've never seen a Soho soda before I came here." Kidd's confusion is understandable, as Soho sodas come from New York City...
...Videosmith and Learningsmith, says he aims to "introduce people to new technology...in an atmosphere that isn't totally high tech" His store will offer three main services; access to the Internet, the latest in CD-ROM equipment and virtual reality encounters--all while sipping cappuccino and nibbling on pie...
Edmunds often moves to formal verse in his longer pieces in The High Road to Taos, , resorting to trite rhyme schemes like, "Farewell, my love, goodbye/Red wine, and oyster pie..." The feeling of spontaneity in exploring a single image, taking a break from the main road is lost. While several small moments of impact may be contained within a single poem, they cannot save the whole from fragmentation...