Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems nigher for the Square's only 24-hour greasy spoon...
DINING LOCATIONS: Three restaurants offer service from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.: Joziah's a greasy spoon, Ivy Room, an all vegitarian cafe and The Gate, a snack food cafe...
...personal favorite. The luscious hot fudge deserves pontification. There is rarely a wait and the staff is eager to please. Whoever is on is always glad to put a cap on my cup of ice cream and stick it in a bag. Staffers also stick in a spoon and napkins, a thoughtful gesture. The bag is necessary because of my Raynaud's. Otherwise, I would be unable to transport dessert back to my dorm room...
...Washington DC to visit Walsh's Aunt Nan, who was not home. Sitting on the curb outside Aunt Nan's house, the group wrote a fictional country-western song whose lyrics included, "There's shit in my peanut butter." A debate over whether to use a knife or spoon to spread the peanut butter on the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches they were eating (courtesy of HDS) inspired the group's songwriting effort. "At that point, we had not been sleeping a lot," Philipp said...
Sights like that are jarring to the senses because our experience tells us that certain things, both in and out of nature, do not go together. Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon is always upsetting, no matter how often one looks at it, because we tend to keep certain textures and functions separate in our minds. Snow on a beach is not upsetting in the same way, but it startles the imagination. Where a child built a castle in the sand, he might make a snowman in winter. Or he could build a fort, two forts...