Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, the ultrachic restaurants of America were almost exclusively French. Today, on the smart streets of Manhattan, Washington, Chicago and Beverly Hills, three-star cafes are filled with the pungent aromas of Naples and Bologna. Pasta vincit ora/na/Not only the familiar, plebeian spaghetti, macaroni and ravioli, but more than 150 forms of Mediterranean batter, from agnolotti to ziti, have landed in fancy dress on elegant menus. Indeed, just about everywhere, restaurants and cooking schools dedicated to those al dente squares and rounds and ribbons of pearly paste are subverting meat-and-taters America. Exclaims Master Cook James Beard...
...JOHN KELLY '83, 4:05: CONNIE DAHLIN '83, 4:06: DEBBIE SMITH '84, 3:57: PAUL HEMP (Harvard Law '82), 3:49: WALTER PAULSON '83, 3:38: MARK PAUL '82, 3:38: MARGET LONG '83, 4:15: CORKY MCLEOD '84, 3:50: TIM BECHTOLD '84, 4:30: MIKE SMART '84: 3:32: DANA WARREN '82, 4:30... Kelly commented that part of the reason Winthrop House was so well represented was because tutor RODNEY PEARSON--who ran a blazing 2:35--generated a lot of enthusiasm by putting up signs on the wall and being helpful. If the Winthrop turnout...
...women do wear simple, modern clothing--a lovely assortment of pink and blue blouses and skirts. And the male chorus sports smart 1980s army jackets and leather sneakers, and paddles in and out riding blue skateboards. When the gondoliers leave Venice to become kings of Barataria, they puff themselves up a bit with hats and golf-clubs. Most amusing of all, when Don Alhambra, the normally buffoonish grand inquisitor, finds himself in moments of stress, he takes a snort from a small black snuff box he carries; the box occasionally tips over when someone bumps into...
Quite a few? If obesity and injuries are two common afflictions of the body human, and only one can be found at Harvard, there's a fairly simple explanation. Everybody comes here well-rounded, in the strictly figurative sense. Not only are they smart but they're athletic as well, playing several varsity sports in high school, and captaining one of them...
...fact, Schaap quotes several psychologists as suggesting that the owner's legendary capriciousness could stem only from a need to please his father. And, says Schaap. Henry G. Steinbrenner was rarely pleased. When his son purchased the Yankees in 1973, his father told friends, "That's the first smart thing he's ever done...