Word: pumpkin
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With the standard North American Christmas dinner about as predictable as a Norman Rockwell rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from...
Definitely the "Sergeant Pepper" of Christmas albums, this one will be remembered years from now as the time Snoopy first turned on and went psychedelic. Maybe it was there all along and we never noticed, never wanted to believe it. Along with that little roundheaded kid and the Great Pumpkin and the Red Baron and Woodstock, this puppy has been on a strange trip for quite a while. But this time he lets it all hang...
Such tales have not been limited to small firms. Chemical Bank, which lost $6 million in post-Volckerism bond dealing, abruptly fired its trading manager. A billion-dollar sure thing- the issuing of IBM bonds last month- turned into a pumpkin for such blue-ribbon investment bankers as Salomon Bros., which had underwritten the deal. Because of difficulties selling the IBM securities, Salomon and other traders had to swallow losses of $10 million. For the once staid bond market, it has been a fitting 50th anniversary of the Great Crash...
Only under the worst conditions does Updike envision that men can begin to dismantle the obstacles between them. Pain alone links Tod and his wife. Pumpkin, in "Love Song for a Moog Synthesizer." Tod responds to Pumpkin's need for human sympathy only when she offers a "piece of herself, transferred to his ribs, his kidneys, as pain." Love attaches itself only "to what we cannot help," Updike observes grimly. In another tale of marital wrangling, then, the wife gets through to her husband only by inducing desperation like a "hooked claw," evolving "psychic protuberances that penetrated and embraced...
...majority of students, however, seem to think pumpkin carvings, ice cream orgies, donuts, cider and pinball go better with booze. It is basically an unhealthy attitude to believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...