Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those in charge could not have let alone the famed "21" burger is beyond imagining. It now arrives atop a slice of grilled country bread, and embedded in the burger is a big knob of green herb butter, a touch that adds flavor -- and cholesterol. The butter also prevents the inner meat from remaining truly rare. In much the same way, Rosenzweig should have let well enough alone with the rice pudding, one of the few really good things on the old list. New desserts are still uneven; better additions include ice cream glazed in the style of creme brulee...
Still, many wary, independent women, conditioned to comfort dressing by the Reebok revolution, are apparently determined to defy the tyranny of dictatorial designers and the fashion press. They are not about to attack closets with scissors to slice off their precious collection of skirts. "There is something elegant about a hint of knee or a hint of ankle," says one Chicago socialite who has legs worth flaunting, "but there is absolutely nothing elegant about an expanse of thigh. Women are comfortable in their long skirts. Who wants to think about how they cross their legs or walk up steps?" Adds...
...failed attempts at British accents and a failure to alter annoying British colloquialisms; phrases as "wind screen" instead of "windshield," "shaving foam" instead of "shaving cream" distract the audience for no purpose. Inspector Hound, moreover, at longer than an hour, begins to grate. DiPrima would have been wiser to slice out a third of the dialogue, and concentrate on the sparkling delivery of the remainder...
...council gets a $10 slice of every undergraduate termbill. Although most students know about this fee, they know very little about what happens to the money after it leaves their pockets. Each semester the council doles out nearly $20,000 of the money to student groups and makes the dispersements public. But what does the council do with the approximately $20,000 it keeps for itself...
...zoning provision, which affects a 300-acre slice of Ward 5 in Cambridgeport, was passed as an amendment to a ``downzoning'' of the area...