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...Teller are ultra-show-biz-savvy New York intellectuals whose act is an ironic deconstruction of magic shows in addition to being a very impressive magic show (see box). They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing fire...
...dessert (because who gives an entree as a gift?), there's 500 chocolate truffles (1 year, 4 months, 13 days' worth if consumed one per day) from Sweet Stuff, in the Shops by Harvard Yard, or 33 Platinum gift-wrapped balatons of Neuhaus Belgian chocolates from Cardullo's. Or what about 557 Australian candy-dipped preserved two-inch diameter apricots (that's a string of apricots 93 feet long) from Crate and Barrel, 48 Brattle Street? If your gift recipient is a pre-med and keen on staying up late to study, $1,000 will get you 166.66 pounds...
...remember being so excited about the holidays as a child that I could barely keep from eating all my Advent calendar candies before the Advent even officially began. Now there's not an Advent calendar, with or without the sweet stuff, anywhere around my room...
...lead from then on, and the margin was only 16 because of sloppy play in the last two minutes (the Crimson scored only six points in the last 4:23). Co-captain Katie Phillips, playing only her second game of the season after a knee injury, showed a sweet outside shooting touch in scoring eight points. In addition, her presence stabilized the young Crimson team...
...known you and to have your confidence." To Katharine Graham, head of the Washington Post: "Hello, my sweetheart, how are you . . . You know, there's only one thing I dislike about this job . . . that I'm married and I can't ever get to see you. I hear that sweet voice on the telephone . . . and I would like to break out of here and be like one of these young animals down on my ranch, jump a fence...