Word: plate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate, Of Einstein's world you 've made a mess...
Christian charities consider the Hare Santas to be a pain in the collection plate. Don Schwartz, Manhattan-based operations director for the Volunteers of America, complains that they often crowd his own Kris Kringles off the streets. In Kansas City, Mo., assault charges are pending against a Hare Santa who allegedly struck a Salvation Army bell ringer to make her move from a choice location. In Chicago, police arrested six Krishna Kringles for soliciting funds under false pretenses, then released them but ordered them to doff their Santa outfits. Nonetheless, the organization has no intention of changing its methods, pointing...
...face without a single redeeming feature." To Simon, Maggie Smith resembles "an upstart rooster aspiring to barnyard supremacy." Glenda Jackson "has the looks of an asexual harlequin." Most leading ladies suffer Simon silently, but after he characterized Sylvia Miles as a "party girl and gate crasher," she dumped a plate of food on him in a Manhattan restaurant...
...Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in. The dessert: a green, seven-tier cake complete with half a dozen doves that flew out to hover over the imperial plate...
...domestic investment banking business (basically, the underwriting of new stock and bond issues), Lehman has specialized also in money markets, commercial paper and U.S. Government securities. Kuhn Loeb is a major underwriter and adviser to scores of foreign governments from Austria to Venezuela. To underline this distinction, the name plate at U.S. headquarters in New York will be Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb Inc., while abroad the firm will be known as Kuhn Loeb Lehman Bros. International...