Word: aficionado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lampoonery II: Ostentation may have gone out with the Reagans, but the Harvard Lampoon doesn't seem to have caught on yet. A lavish bash the other night for millionaire motorcycle aficionado Malcolm S. Forbes, which reportedly cost somewhere in the $10,000 range, featured such tuxedo-clad cast in the hundreds. Once inside the Lampy castle, Forbes and crew were feted at the head table with a lavish meal. Other guests didn't get dinner, but there were drinks and hors d'oeuvres for all. But despite the big bucks lavished on the celebration, everything did not go without...
...Cheesecake to, of all places, New York, New York, hoping to find retail outlets. Baked back home, this lemon- and vanilla-flavored cake is based on a recipe Dunsavage's mother developed after being beguiled by the original on a trip to the Big Apple. The verdict from this aficionado of the genre: not bad, but a bit too sweet and creamy to fool connoisseurs...
...northern Chile, where astrophysicists first sighted 1987A. Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who specializes in science, canvassed supernova experts from Cambridge, Mass., to Santa Cruz, Calif. Says Nash: "I had heard of supernovas, of course, but was only dimly aware of their importance." After a few interviews, she became an aficionado. "The energy released by a supernova makes Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa look absolutely puny in comparison," she declares. "The explosive death of a star is truly worthy...
Indeed, the production has been an affirmation of the family Huston, a confluence of circumstances that sums up two generations of experience. "This picture is very significant to me," says Huston, a Joyce aficionado who lived in Ireland for 25 years and still holds an Irish passport. "It's based on Joyce, it takes place in Ireland, it stars my daughter and is written by my son." The man who directed his father Walter in the 1948 classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (for which both won Academy Awards) and guided Anjelica to last year's supporting-actress Oscar...
...weight room aficionado says she heard a group of football-minded Kirkland House residents joined the popular 5:30 aerobics class to expand their athletic horizons...