Word: spaghettied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, demographic accuracy remains a modest virtue in fiction. Giardina possesses greater gifts, notably in creating children who sound and act like children, and in compressing plot into homespun metaphor. Henna prepares a dinner of spaghetti topped with broccoli and garlic; the widow's son bursts out, "This is not what we eat." When Henna gazes at the woman he believes he loves, he thinks, "You are like an open book, always open to the wrong pages, revealing information no one is prepared for." Occasions like these easily give a glum and sometimes predictable story the air of authenticity...
...real fun begins. Predictably, Zee takes a break from walking, sitting down at Cafe Central next to Eli and Martin. When the waitress asks her if she's ready to order, Zee says yes, stares at the menu, and starts to cry. "I'll have a hamburger, no, spaghetti and bacon and sausage (all the things she feels she should have cooked for her husband), no, scratch that, I'll have chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce and a chocolate donut." By this point Zee is overwhelmed with tears, prompting Eli to inquire "Did you ever decide what you wanted...
...ritzy because we always have dessert," explains Browning one night when the chef, Marcia Rorty '84, offers a dark chocolate mousse with fresh whipped cream to top off her spaghetti and garlic bread dinner...
...Gemayel at his palace overlooking the city. Later he told TIME how his three hours in Beirut had moved him. "One is never prepared for the magnitude of what happened," he said softly. "You're standing there in a crater looking at one-inch reinforcing rods twisted like spaghetti. On the more positive side, I asked a Marine to whom I had just given a Purple Heart what he looked forward to. 'Well,' he said, 'I'll see my family soon. I also want to be with my outfit, to be back on my base...
...tried to help with every project I have brought to his door. We are working together on computer education in the Cambridge schools. We host a picnic in the Harvard Yard for 2000 senior citizens every summer. Harvard students volunteer their services in Cambridge neighborhoods, I cooked a spaghetti dinner for the Harvard and Cambridge high school football teams. Harvard (thanks, Jack Reardon) put on a great cookout for 300 Cambridge high school athletes in return...