Word: roast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groomed, well-to-do white people, and the deeds are neat, bloodless, imaginatively staged. In recent weeks we have seen a magician drown in a tank of water when his escape trick is sabotaged (Diagnosis Murder); a late-night TV host electrocuted by his microphone at a Friars-type roast (Burke's Law); and a manic-depressive book editor driven to near madness and pushed off a building roof to feign a suicide (Murder, She Wrote). Murders are never random or accidental or committed in the heat of passion; they are carefully planned by people with clear, easily understood motives...
...Ryan, 1994's Hasty Pudding "Woman of the Year," was paraded through Harvard Square and received the famed Pudding Pot at a roast yesterday...
...roast which took place in the Hasty Pudding Theatre, the obviously flattered Ryan tousled her hair in amused delight as Pudding members heckled her with a series of quips and sallies about her life and career...
...ROAST THE EXECUTIVE STAFF OF THE HARVARD STUDENT TELEPHONE OFFICE ON A SPIT UNTIL THEY BEG FOR MERCY...
...traditional Thursday meal will be repletewith roast turkey with homemade stuffing andgravy, baked sugar cured ham, harvest nut roastwith vegetarian gravy, whipped potatoes, butternutsquash, mashed turnips, garden green peas, freshcranberry sauce, dinner rolls and fresh pumpkin,apple and pecan pies...