Word: toscannini
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...things were looking up. Toscannini's opened in the Square. Enter the Iced Vietnamese. I spent the summer after sophomore year working at Let's Go and walked to work most days from Somerville. Emerging from Dexter gate, I felt like a man who has been wandering in a desert and has just spotted an oasis. The sun was usually high in the sky already, and I squinted as I crossed the street. The Iced Vietnamese is composed of iced coffee with sweet condensed milk. The sweet syrupy milk tends to settle at the bottom, but when swished around well...
...came back from a semester abroad to discover Toscannini's mini sundae. Perfectly priced ($2) and sized for my post-Paris plumpness, the mini sundae was the perfect excuse to extend a lazy evening. The chocolate pudding ice cream has a depth of flavor I dare to call orgasmic and a gooey texture that makes the dixie cup seem bottomless. The smudge of fresh whipped cream doesn't last as long as it should, but the slightly sour flavor complements the sweetness of the ice cream and hot fudge--you wouldn't want one without the other...
...well worth trying. Uncle Bunny's (962 Mass. Ave) is pretty good if you're up for the 10-minute trek. The Gelateria Gluseppe (85 Mt. Auburn St.) is close by and offers light sherbet-like ice cream that is much smoother than the traditionally made ice cream. At Toscannini's (899 Main St.) in Central Square you can enjoy ice cream that many say is not only worth the walk but a cut above even the Square's top draws. They have the classic seven flavors in a not-too-sweet and perfectly smooth mixture...
...children the European traditions of culture and education. Soon after his marriage, the family moved to Detroit, where Coppola was first flutist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. ("That's how Francis Ford was named, but that's a different story.") Then, back to New York, where Coppola worked under Toscannini...
...conducting, Mehta became the personification of the music--his arms were fluid and graceful during the light, airy passages in the opening of the Ravel, and then became tense and stiff when the music demanded rhythmically exact cues to the orchestral players. And Mr. Mehta, like the legendary Arturo Toscannini, conducts from memory--without a score. This allows him even more freedom of movement, and he takes advantage of it, yet with a sense of controlled energy. In General Dance, the last section of the work, Mehta captured all the flavor of the carousing, boisterous theme development. This section features...