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...great food sneaker, and loves breads, rich desserts, ice cream and candy. She does her heaviest eating when she's upset. As a child, Shirley stopped spending her allowance on candy once she discovered that a 10? can of condensed milk, eaten with a spoon, is the sweetest thing there is. Asked this summer to name the foods she would most like to have on a desert island. Shirley said: "Fudge, brownies, chocolate ice cream and orange juice." She loves television, often eats her meals from a tray before her 17-inch screen, and races home from the theater...
Thus the LaSalle String Quartet spoon-feeds a young audience its first taste of a "difficult" musical form, chamber music. It finds that its layman-language explanations work very well with listeners of all ages, and just as well with the Bartok and Schoenberg in their repertory as with the classics. When the performance is finished, the quartet usually gets a rousing cheer from a young audience, plus such probing questions as "What is the white stuff you put on the bows?" (rosin), and "Why doesn't the music have titles instead of just numbers...
Cannon & Coffee. His most important experiment: working with a cannon-boring machine, he established the equivalence of heat and work, demolishing the long-accepted "caloric" theory. In verbose essays, Rumford also discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...
Tired of It All. Often Narriman sat for hours with her teetotaling husband at a nightclub without exchanging a word, while he accompanied the orchestra by banging the silverware, or led the musicians with a spoon. He gambled heavily. His tublike figure became familiar on the Via Veneto, puffing down to newsstands to fuel up on comic books and spicy magazines...
...graceful swans paddling neck to neck about a blue lake. His Hesitation Waltz is a picture of two oranges decked out in masks, eying each other warily. One of the favorites: Night at Pisa, which shows the famed leaning tower considerately propped up by an outsize kitchen spoon...