Word: pretzelism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took him around the office, where several writers and I scavenged for snacks, as is our nightly ritual. On our way to Barbara's Drawer of Chocolate, we passed some peanuts and pretzel sticks. "Did you set this up?" he asked incredulously. "Did you just put this here?" Seeing his reaction to mildly high-carb and high-fat foods, I circumvented Barbara's Drawer and took him to Ray's Closet of Low-Fat Snacks. He was not impressed. "In the late '80s, the dairy industry and the packaged-goods industry created this low-fat and no-fat bulls...
...some cases the actors surpass their own script and achieve the seemingly impossible task of carrying 'Shlemiel' to a higher plane. Benjamin Evett who plays the mischievous Chaim Rascal as well as the Chelmish sage Dopey Pretzel, when not stealing Shlemiel's latkas is doing the same with the stage. Comfortable and at ease with the silliness with the lyrics, he sings with the glee of a Puck and the energy to match the Klezmer Band's clarinet. Also exceptional are the buffoon Gronam Ox and his wife Yenta Pesha (Marilyn Sokol). Shlemiel himself (Will LeBow) is shlemiely enough...
...mind resists reducing cosmogony to cartoons. On the other hand, what could be more in the spirit of Coyote and Road Runner than the Big Bang? Science instructs us that the universe is made of beer suds, or of string. Time bends like a pretzel and vanishes into a black hole. What if the universe is the hysterically funny work of a trickster-comic...
...Though they've had the music too loud and parking gets a little nuts,anything that increases foot-traffic is a help,"said Carol Ann Pretzel, who works at Good Good TheElephant, a nearby shop...
...Winthrop Street is out of the way so a lot ofpeople going to the House of Blues pass by here,"Pretzel said...