Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts are $100 for a single guest, $150 per couple. For $18,000, the hall provided the Takahashis with food, invitations, thank-you notes, photographs, kimono and formal wear. The 5-ft. wedding cake, however, was cardboard, except for the bride's traditional slice...
...introduction to his latest collection, Jules Feiffer describes the slice of America the cartooned pair was meant to symbolize: "Greenwich Village make-out men, wine and cheese parties...bosses who thought it was a violation of friendship to ask for a raise, anxious fathers sand possessive mothers. Village men and women explaining themselves in an endless babble of self-interest, self-loathing, and evasion." Bernard and Huey, Feiffer expains, were "Robert Benechley heroes launched into the Age of Freud...
...rather highly publicized event entitled "Common Ground" will be taking place this weekend. It is billed as offering "Perspectives on the Middle East." Yet it in fact offers an extremely limited view of the Middle East. "Common Ground" will be presenting, at best, a narrow slice...
...Smith's yearbook of history, with all the other Bobby Thompsons, Monte Irvins, and Red Schoendists of baseball lore. It was at once a touching and thrilling moment--for even the most hardbitten of Yankee or Brewer fans. And for the Oriole fan, it almost was like watching a slice of history...
...while the franchises share and share alike, say the players, the athletes are treated to a skimpy slice of the pie. Despite the fact that their average salary of $90,000 is not exactly K rations, football players are the worst paid of major professional athletes (see chart). Three baseball players, New York Yankee Dave Winfield, Philadelphia Phillie Mike Schmidt and California Angel Reggie Jackson, together make more than the entire 45-man roster of the Dallas Cowboys...