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...most frenzied mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition is among pizza makers. Domino's claims the largest entry with its Dominator -- a 30-in.-long, 2.08-sq.-ft., 30-slice slab of dough, cheese and toppings. It's the first Domino's pizza that won't be delivered by the company's swift red-and-blue- uniformed workers; customers will have to cart the monster home themselves. Fighting it out for second place are Little Caesar's Big! Big! Cheese and Pizza Hut's Bigfoot, both roughly 2 sq. ft. Says Rob Doughty, a Pizza Hut vice president for marketing...
When the larger slab of ice hit her, Molnar said she "leaned over but did not lose consciousness. My head went numb. "The chunk made a three-inchcut on the back of her head, which bled profusely, she said...
...then, as described above, I wasn't moving anymore. I was lying down three-quarters of the way to the bottom. My left ski--my faithful partner--stayed with me. The right one didn't. The treacherous slab finished the trail without...
...been built and lacquered, King often drives downtown for lunch at Duke Zeibert's, one of the capital's last old- fashioned, macho places to be seen. From his usual table, he can quickly scan, and be scanned by, every patron who enters. For lunch he invariably has slab after slab of Streit's salted matzos, lavishly spread with light margarine, plus a lettuce-and-tomato salad. Between bites he waves to and chats with all the pols, power brokers and wannabes...
...public fracas surrounding the expansion, it was always the exterior of Gwathmey's new $24 million slab that got all the attention; the $22 million interior renovation of Wright's building (which cost $7 million in 1959) was mentioned only passingly. Now that the work is finished and the doors are open, that fever ratio should reverse itself: the slab is a bland and only slightly annoying intrusion, while Gwathmey's intelligent, intricate, loving work inside is a revelation, making it a far, far better museum than it has ever been...