Word: puff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schorner has just opened his own rose-pink confection of a bakery-cafe, Patisserie Cafe Didier, in Washington's Georgetown, where chocolate cake ($2.50 a slice) and cream-puff swans ($2 each) are among the offerings. "Desserts sell better when they are beautiful," he notes, "so decorating is important...
...balloon--bearing the letters "MIT" inflated, rose and exploded in a puff of smoke. "The Blob," as it was called then, was one of many pranks pulled off that day by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...reach the keys. People afflicted with cerebral palsy prefer oversize keyboards with hard-to-miss, 2-in.-sq. keys. Quadriplegics, who can move only their heads, are nonetheless able to control a computer by using a mouth-held typing stick or a breath-controlled device called a "sip-and-puff " switch. Blind programmers often learn touch typing so they can enter data in the usual way; to read output they use VersaBrailles, Braille printers or voice synthesizers that pronounce the words in a computer monotone...
Last fall when the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas Ginsburg vanished in a puff of marijuana smoke, more than a dozen of his contemporaries, including Presidential Hopefuls Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, rushed forward to admit that they too had succumbed to reefer madness. Most confessions were formulaic: "I once tried pot as an experiment. I did not enjoy it, and I deeply regret my foolish behavior." Few ambitious baby boomers are willing to talk honestly about what they learned from '60s-era dabbling in soft drugs for fear of sounding as if they were about to check...
...after some 75 pictures, three Oscar nominations, innumerable charity works and goodwill tours, and a Medal of | Freedom from the President, the 71-year-old star is finally ready to cede the spotlight. As proof, he records a chance meeting with a beautiful admirer. "I suck in my gut, puff out my chest, slap a bicep. In a velvet voice, she says, 'Wow! Michael Douglas's father!' " Issur should live so long...