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Desserts in my family have always been a reward or an unexpected present, reserved for occasional weekend nights and special celebrations. For my First Communion I had a decadent chocolate cake from Alden Merrill. The physical bread meant little to me, the sour-smelling wine even less, when compared to the stunningly sweet pastel packaged neatly in a cardboard box and stored safely in the basement refrigerator. I can still picture myself carving into the smooth fudge that formed the outer layer of the cake. The contrast between my crisp white dress, with its eyelet detail and simple lace ribbons...
While the afternoon’s beautiful weather turned sour as the movie’s starting time arrived, the show went on and about half the crowd stuck...
...Democrats plan to capitalize on a sour economic mood? According to Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe, Democratic candidates are honing their speeches for a couple of key dates in the fall campaign season: on September 30th, for example, voters will start to receive retirement account statements in the mail. On October 4th and November 1st, the government releases the latest jobless figures. Conventional wisdom says that if the numbers are bad - as Democrats surreptitiously hope they will be - the GOP, as the party in power, stands to suffer at the hands of frustrated and angry voters...
...June, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents agreed to a reduction in football recruits from 140 players over a four-year period to 120, or 30 per season. It was a sour ending to a sweet year for a Harvard football program that posted a 9-0 record...
...popular notion of V.S. Naipaul is of a remote and forbidding figure, part Yoda, part Brahmin, author of sour essays and dense novels, whose favorite riposte is "I told you so." But this detachment is recent, an effect of various elevations: the knighthood in 1990, the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. The truth is that he has spent much of his life enmeshed in current events, making a living as a freelancer and giving permanent form to subjects such as teacup tempests in Anguilla and Grenada. It's hard these days to imagine Naipaul following the Norman-Mailer...