Word: plum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is the glorious Resume Contest award? A plum position at a fancy New York firm? A paid political vacation in Washington, D.C.? "Three winners," the flier promises, "one from each year, will receive a $50.00 prize!" Here our hearts sink. After all, it was merely months ago that certain companies, running their own private resume contests, were offering a $50,000 prize. (The superfluous zeroes on the poster are part of the tease.) And then we get to the fine print: "As part of a larger research project on career choices by organizational researchers, a resume contest will...
Soon, we find ourselves back in front of the Celebrity Deli, the site of our original location on line. Again confronted with those warm, inviting booths, we head inside and order some breakfast. Before our whitefish salad arrives, we've all passed out. I dream of sugar plum fairies and Downtown Julie Brown. Noah D. Oppenheim calls it as he sees it and tells it like it is. Joshua H. Simon and Aaron R. Cohen just go along for the ride...
...peach, a plum, a stick of chewing gum. Don't like it, don't chew it, and this means...
...serving of plum tomato sauce = 170 cal, 6 g fat (that...
...kneels before Anna as a communicant receiving the Eucharist, or a child before its mother. Love is a sacrament of which neither man is worthy. Henrik and Tomas are really complementary halves of one weak man: the Bergman man. Henrik tastes the truth as if it were a bitter plum, and the corners of his mouth tighten in rage and impotence...