Word: stromboli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming verdict" of "kudos to HDS." We found the vegetarian hamburger to be, frankly, vile. We were amazed at HDS' lame attempt to improvise a new menu item. We compared it unfavorably to other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe feels that the quality of the food at Harvard...
...precious toy airplane instead of holding onto his mother's hand for dear life. Once on his own, he leaps into the grasping arms of a scurvy American merchant seaman (John Malkovich). Jim might be an Oliver Twist auditioning for Fagin, or a Pinocchio begging to visit Stromboli's summer camp...
Here she was in 1949: an Academy Award-winning actress, for the preceding three years one of the two most popular female stars in America (the other was Betty Grable), going off to Italy to make Stromboli with Neorealist Master Roberto Rossellini. Soon there were hints that something more than professional respect informed their relationship, rumors devastatingly confirmed by the illegitimate birth of her first child by Rossellini. Her first husband won custody of their child in an ugly divorce action, there was a vicious denunciation in the U.S. Senate, and, finally, what might have been the best years...