Word: roasting
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Think of the fancy dishes you slaved over that became disasters, big dishes that were lost in the late innings. Here's roast turkey, which tastes great, and all you do is baste. You melt butter, you nip at the wine, and when the turkey is done, you seat everyone, carve the bird, sing the doxology and pass the food...
...combat fatigues, Karadzic with his gray tresses waving. For the next eight hours the Bosnian Serbs and Holbrooke's staff worked on the language of the agreement Milosevic had proposed. Part of the time Holbrooke and Milosevic were out of the room for private talks and a dinner of roast lamb and red wine...
Republican consultant Ed Rollins has a way of getting his clients in trouble. At a roast in California on May 15, Rollins, a part-time volunteer for Bob Dole, suggested that California Democrat Willie Brown might run for mayor of San Francisco -- and not Los Angeles -- because Brown didn't want to let "Hymie boys" from L.A. push him around. It was the kind of gaffe that might have paralyzed a fledgling presidential campaign. But at Dole headquarters in Washington, no one came unhinged. Instead, sources told Time, campaign manager Scott Reed telephoned Rollins last Monday and asked...
...quart at the going exchange rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether her husband, an advertising executive, should uproot their family and accept an offer from his company to transfer to Japan...
Like many other Harvard endeavors, the Pudding show was fun and rightly displayed the talent of the people involved. But their bawdy performance is subsidized by a rumored $250,000 budget which seemed unaccounted for in the final product. The Pudding offered an occasionally vicious roast while Tom Hanks adeptly side-stepped any awkwardness with boyish aplomb...