Word: caked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major motion picture. "She is a very strong collaborator," says Durang. "The furthest-out ideas come from Sigourney. I, however, type faster." Of their paldom, Weaver says, "We have so much fun ( together. Our friendship is in a class all by itself. It's the icing on the cake of life...
...just made sense. I had an apartment, and she supported me." Perlman, a scrappy 5 ft. 1 in., co-stars as the lonely termagant Carla, a kind of female Louie DePalma, on NBC's Cheers; posed together, Carla and Louie could be figurines on the Grinch's wedding cake. But Rhea and Danny have made better luck. They have lived together for 16 years and were finally married in 1981. "At the ceremony," DeVito says, "we had a recording of Rhea's favorite song, Alfalfa's rendition of I'm in the Mood for Love, taped from...
...little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom greeted reception guests from a bejeweled white velvet sleigh custom-made by the bride's father. Cost of the festivities, including a 250- lb. wedding cake shaped into a replica of Red Square...
...plenty of home-cooked casseroles and ham and turkey platters at the rehearsal dinner before the May 24 wedding of Ann Delinda Thompson and Kenneth Orlando Thomas, both 25. The food was prepared by friends and neighbors and certified good enough to compete with any catered affair. Even the cake was made locally, although it was the kind of extravaganza that looks like an honors project at a baking school: three small cakes surrounded a central four-layer job, with stairways from level to level. "There were little models of people going up to the fountain," Delinda recalls...
...good news is that the past is still very much alive in William Trevor's latest stories. As in previous collections, such as The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Lovers of Their Time, national and personal histories cast a haunting twilight over a lonely present. This works particularly well in the title story of The News from Ireland, which is set in the 1840s. That, of course, is the period of the great famine that sent more than 1 million Irish to the New World. It is also the time when a family of English Protestants named Pulvertaft...