Word: sipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Campus and the New Haven Green on College Street, is one classy dinner spot within reach. A well-stocked bar and elegant decor are the highlights of this popular New Haven eatery. Roasting game spins in over an open flame and patrons munch on thin bread sticks and sip white wine. Scuzzi, a very good if pricey Italian dinner restaurant, offers a wide variety of desserts, prepared to please both the palate and the eye. Located across from the Yale Art Galley on Chapel Street, Scuzzi features a delightful pumpkin pecan as well as an extensive, highbrow ice cream selection...
...gourmet coffee is a wine for the nineties. There is the snobbery about country of origin, the niggling distinctions about process of preparation, and the gratuitous use of descriptive yet totally inaccurate adjectives to distinguish flavor. The coffee illuminati can sip their Kenya AA or $30-per-pound Jamaican Blue Mountain while they debate the comparative merit of washed and dry-milled beans with an air of enlightened self-satisfaction...
...special attraction coffee holds in an academic community stems from the rampant francophilia of American intellectuals; and francophiles are to coffee-houses as pedophiles are to elementary schools. The coffee house offers the satisfaction of the francophiles' basic urges--to prattle pretentiously, indulge in snobbery, and, of course, sip du cafe...
Others aren't so fortunate. "This girl named Allie was stumbling between groups of students next to Out-of-Town News, holding a bottle of vodka. She would find some people she vaguely recognized, thrust out her bottle, and in a squeaky voice, shriek, `Who wants a sip of Allie's Vodka? You want a sip of Allie's vodka!' Until a large police officer grunted, `I want a sip of Allie's Vodka!' and confiscated the bottle." recalls Exonian Matt Johnson...
...third sip makes you realize what you've just been drinking tastes exactly like sewer water...