Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last visit Monday night took us to Lev Blithstein's home at almost 11 p.m. We found an old, sweet man urging us to try Russian candy. He told us that he has been waiting 11 years to join his wife and son abroad, and meet the grandchild whom he has only seen in photographs. After a short talk, Lev led us to a bus stop, embraced us and said with tears in his eyes, "I envy you girls, that you can leave tomorrow morning...
...ticket buyers gave Big Deal a $1.5 million advance. The Shubert Organization invested $1.1 million co-producing the spectacle and an additional $7.5 million renovating its showcase, the Broadway Theater. With one more musical scheduled before the season ends May 1--Fosse's own revival of his 1966 hit Sweet Charity, starring Debbie Allen--Big Deal looked like everybody's best prospect for a big winner...
...with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums...
...George Wallace ended his journey in the vicinity of redemption. It was a strange and moving American spectacle to see Wallace a few weeks ago receive an honorary degree from Tuskegee Institute, the blacks in the audience applauding him with a forgiving warmth. Wounded, in his wheelchair, subdued and sweet, he blew them kisses...
Mansfield, an expert on Machiavelli, said the University in the past has tried both discipline and "sweet reason" to dissuade students from limiting speakers' freedom of expression. But Mansfield said that because neither method has eliminated such protest, Harvard should insure speakers the right to address the community...