Word: spicier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nahid Nosrat-Mozaffari '77 carries a little bottle of seasoning with her everywhere. She can't stand Harvard food, she says--she comes from Iran, and the food there is generally much spicier than Lowell House's watereddown vegetables. When one of her friends points out that the spice jar looks like a gold-fish food container, she replies, "Yes, but it makes almost anything taste better...
...enjoying themselves thoroughly. Sweeping onto the stage like a cold draught of air, Mary Ennis as Gwendolyn's imposing mother rivals her daughter's haughty demeanor. The actors taking the smaller parts, who vary in quality, all face the uninspiring task of being tasteless foils to the spicier coterie of leading characters...
Across the nation, there was a great fumbling and clicking of chopsticks-an item that restaurants often ran out of, as Americans accustomed to forks and chop suey suddenly demanded authenticity. Instead of the familiar Cantonese cuisine, spicier Mandarin dishes enjoyed a vogue. Some adventurous diners even demanded preserved eggs and shark's-fin soup...