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...orders a pretzel for $2, at Fenway for $3. Sean and Chris attack the pretzel with mustard...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Ballpark Wisdom: Dining Out with Harvard's Fenway Boys | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...seventh grade his class was assigned to write a short play, classmate Peter Blauner remembers, and Kennedy wrote a play about being unable to write a play. "He was riffing about the various characters he'd tried to create," says Blauner, "from a ballet dancer to a deranged pretzel vendor in Central Park. It was really funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art Of Being JFK Jr. | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...organizers then called in the police to secure the area. The reaction of an older generation of Woodstock fans may have been epitomized by one 44-year-old Massachusetts man who died of a heart attack. Then again, they didn?t have to pay $4 for a pretzel back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chili Peppers Fiddle as Rome Burns | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Wouldn't Eat That if I Were You | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clarinets Captivate but No Surprises From Silly Shlemiel | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

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