Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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East Cambridge, the city's ethnic stew with its mixture of first and second generation Portuguese, Italians, Irish, and Polish, lies three blocks north of Kendall Square. Factories fill these three blocks. The neighborhood is poor, working class and full of fierce loyalties. Many of the residents work in the nearby plants; unemployment plagues the area...
...Stew But No Kisses...
...course stretches 26 miles, 385 yards, from Hopkinton past admiring Wellesley College females, up Heartbreak Hill to the screaming Eagles of Boston College and then down to the Prudential Center. Boston Mayor Kevin White will be waiting there with a laurel wreath and a bowl of beef stew--but no kisses--for the lucky winner...
...mildly sick adult variety, the degenerate offshoot of upper-middle class Broadway comedy, with its pallid neuroses that all the ashamed afflicted can laugh at. Segal also makes a real effort at verbal acrobatics, and falls flat. "Magic beans, the stuff dreams are made of! And also magic vegetable stew," can't qualify as one of the better bits of verbal word play of the late 20th century...
Joan says, and she pours her own meanings into those words. What about her return to nursing school? Between mouthfuls of oyster stew at the student nurses' cafeteria, she says emphatically, "I'd drop it in a minute. The very minute he gets home...