Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want your confidence and purpose, I want your teeth and tans." But he cannot help hearing the hell raised by garbage trucks between 4 and 5 in the morning, cannot really swallow the harsher barbarities of New York fad cuisine ("fillet of hake in lager and cranberry sauce . . . roast baby pigeons in fresh grapefruit nests"). When city smarts are called for, Henderson loses his nerve. Convinced that he is being attacked on a dark street, he flings his wallet and credit cards to the sidewalk and injures his knees as he runs away. The "muggers" patiently gather up his documents...
Clockwise from top right, young Ibis--whose parents are Harvard alums--checks out North House's advanced alternative to attending lectures; thanks Dean of Students ARCHIE'C. EPPS III for the personal tour of Harvard Yard which the top College official was pleased to offer; samples the roast beef and potatoes at Cabot House; receives the "Blessing for Prospective Students and Other Waywards" from Plummer Professor of Christian Morals PETER J. GOMES, minister in Memorial Church; and catches up on campus news with Cambridge's only break-fast-table daily. Threskiornis, who plans to major in pharmacology, has until...
...collected the Mob's cut from bookies, when two gunmen opened fire, killing him. On Feb. 10 Smith's body was found in the trunk of his car in suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. He had been brutally beaten, and his throat was cut. On Feb. 13 English finished a roast pig dinner at Horwath's restaurant in Elmwood Park, Ill., trading small talk for more than two hours with, among others, two Cook County judges and two village trustees. He patted his stomach, hitched up his belt, waved goodbye and walked toward his white Cadillac De Ville coupe...
Daydream of a defeated politician: everybody still loves you; they roast you, they toast you, then they wheel up buckets of money; and finally, of course, they vote you in. Last week Geraldine Ferraro, 49, seemed well on her way to fulfilling the dream. At a $100-a-head benefit roast for the Women's Action Alliance in Manhattan, she took a round of ribbing from the likes of her daughter Laura Zaccaro, Feminist Gloria Steinem, New York City Council President Carol Bellamy and Comedian Marilyn Michaels. Then Ferraro took a turn at ribbing herself. "Governor Cuomo said the focus...
...sugary Amos flips his tricorner for Alice, but Mandy and the sadistic Mayor are out for witchflesh. Mandy, together with goodtime-guys Pastor Pryme (Tucker McCrady) and Judge Mental (Ron Duvernay), wants the witches for a traditional roast, but the Mayor has them in mind as potential subjects for "medical experiments." (This persistent line, even more egregious when pronounced in a German accent, is the one real misstep in a script which otherwise admirably achieves humor while sidestepping the truly tasteless.) Rounding out the posse is the simpering Mona Lott (Brad Daley), who has been carefully coached to shudder incontrollably...