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...Walker's English shortbread. 100% butter. Very British. Very proper. Very boring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turbulence and Allegies | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...performances, ticketholders can sample ethnic foods from booths in the Great Hall. The Armenian Club will provide kusta, an Armenian dish made with bulgur wheat, scallions and coriander. Baklava, small meatballs, and stuffed grape leaves will grace the Hellenic Society's booth, and the Scottish dancers will offer shortbread. Eight other groups will also share ethnic delicacies...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: Ruben Blades Will Host Show | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

...dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perverbs and Snowballs | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...lets McPhee write in an unusually personal way. He begins an article about Loch Ness, home of the monster, by telling his readers that he and his wife and four daughters were sitting next to the Loch picnicking on "milk, potato sticks, lambs' tongues, shortbread, white chocolate, Mini-Dunlop cheese." Another article is about a basketball game McPhee played in some time ago. Another, about a white-water canoeing championship, spends much of its time talking about the kinds of canoes McPhee paddled in as a child and how he went about entering the races himself. Usually this kind...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Reassuring World | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

...high-carbohydrate diet, with toast, corn, lima beans, shortbread, peaches, applesauce, pineapple, puffed rice, skimmed milk, grape juice, orange juice and a bit of sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dieting: Reduction of Happy Humphrey | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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