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...been polishing his baking technique for 68 years (La Contessa itself has been tempting palates for four decades.) While other bakeries shifted their locales to the newly commercialized North End, Joseph resisted the trend of "going modern" and planted his roots firmly outside Boston. He proclaims his Italian rum cake (strangely sans rum) to be La Contessa's premiere creation, and the sfogliatelle taste-experience is well worth an 85-cent T-token. In an age of Au Bon Pain insta-muffins and glossy baguettes, La Contessa provides that long-forgotten component of family tradition and stick-to-your hips...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: on the T again OUTWARD BOUND | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...synthetic drugs, for one. (Senior Tutors, that is what we semi-humorous people call a "joke." ) Actually, the key is to master the art of vicarious drunkenness. Step one: when I get to any generic Harvard party, my first stop is the drink table. I pour myself a rum and Coke minus the rum and walk around confidently sipping my beverage. Security comes in knowing that as long as I'm drinking something, I'm invisible among the thronging partygoers. Baaaaaah...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: A Teetotaler's Thoughts | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...myharmonica so I said to them, `Hey, check it out!'"Kerr interrupts himself to offer the harmonicarift. "`All right,' he says, `you sound good.We'll call you up.' So I chugged a couple ofdrinks, I can't remember what I was drinking atthe time, I think it was rum, and all of a suddenI hear `Is there a harmonica player out there?'And I come running over the monitors, jump up onstage, grab the wireless mike and I just startedwailing. I remember the whole crowd moving in, Ifelt like Jon Bon Jovi or something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN ON THE CORNER | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...crossed the Balkans--and partisan lines--to set up a Website where Clinton loyalists could leave supportive messages for the President. And the Official Monica Lewinsky Anagrams Page (I Yen Woman Licks; Slick May Win One) expanded its lexicon to include her lawyer, William Ginsburg (Bill Wins? I Gag Rum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Monica All The Time | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Christian and imagine the gruesome crime to which she confessed in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 1983. Back then she was a drug-addicted prostitute who, during a weekend orgy with her boyfriend, had consumed an astonishing quantity of heroin, Valium, speed, percodan, mandrax, marijuana, dilaudid, methadone, tequila and rum. The two then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, her ex-lover, and Deborah Thornton, 32, his companion of the moment, while they slept. Tucker, who left the pickax embedded in Thornton's chest, boasted at her trial that she had experienced an orgasm with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Want to Save Her | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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