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...crowds are expected to set records (about 100,000 a day projected), and the tart-cherry harvest looks to be of epic proportions, but the real shocker this year is the lifting of the official ban on the sale of single slices of fresh pie. Huh? For years, as a major sponsor, the Sara Lee Corp. has operated nothing less than a pie cartel during the cherry confab. The only slice of pie a visitor could buy was Sara Lee's, thanks to a sweet deal with festival officials. But in a saga evocative of the breakup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cherry Pie Monopoly: Sliced! | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 1, 1998 | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...Lime Pie and Pecan Pie came the pernicious, though probably delicious, gesture towards chic--Praline Parfait and Flan. The Pecan Pie is served (naturally) piping hot, graced by silky, homemade vanilla ice cream so light it was almost ice milk. It was perfect. The Key Lime Pie was typically tart and sweet, graham crackery crust with sour flecks of lime rind...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: gourmet grits! | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...like the pastries, and the soup is excellent," Damasco says before biting into a puffy tart...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

That's right, there's a love plot, and an underdeveloped one at that. The writers have taken Mandy Nichols (Alison Eastwood, Clint's daughter), a relatively minor character in the book, and turned her into a nubile tart for Kelso to romance. You can almost hear the producers saying, "Let's get some old-fashioned heterosexual love into this story...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midnight' in the Garden of Good and Eastwood | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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