Word: salads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeing my planet blow up. You know, there go my parents, my record collection, everything. What do I see? A hand waving to tell me where to look." Adds Mark Hamill, 25, who plays Luke Skywalker: "Acting in this movie, I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad. And I didn't even know who the coconuts or cantaloupes were...
...your Gov. 106b paper, but decided that it is only an hour till lunch and by the time you set the typewriter up, look up how to do footnotes in that book from Expos freshman year, and crack your knuckles a few times it will be time for salad plate 21 and vegetarian cheeseburger...
...telephone calls. He pleads in his defense that he gets from 200 to 300 of them a day. But he could hardly spend more time at work. He usually eats lunch at his desk, constantly fighting his weight (185 Ibs.) with a low-cal chopped sirloin, cottage cheese and salad-then snitches sweets from his secretary's candy jar. His rollicking good humor leavens the fatiguing days. He responds to pressure cheerfully in unprintable four-letter language and laughs off complainers with epithets...
...recently as 1965, each night brought a Big Surprise that was usually a Big Letdown. Only one entree a meal was offered to students. Since then the trend has been toward variety in choice. Changes have included the availability of vegetarian plates at every meal and a diversified salad bar including the new rage, three bean salad. The number of beverages has jumped, and a menu coordinated with religious holidays has taken form. The popular hamburger-alternative at the Quad Houses has also appeared...
Such tactics are not always necessary. In 1973 conscience-stricken Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz sold his beloved country home to repay $17,500 owed Simon & Schuster for an unwritten tome on the 1960s. Nora Ephron (Crazy Salad) has paid the last of $14,000 she owed Viking for a never-written history of the liquor industry...