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FOOD Telling Buyers to Kiss Off There's trouble in chocolate town, and it's turning nastier than a pack of Oompa Loompas gone bad. Hershey, the largest U.S. confectioner, is for sale. Switzerland's Nestlé would like to buy it - and leap from 7% of the U.S. market to 38%. The sale would reverse the common pattern of a beloved European firm being snapped up by a rapacious American rival. Founded by Milton Hershey in 1894, the company educated orphans and built an eponymous town; the charitable trust that owns Hershey still educates 1,200 children...
...ignoring an even more neglected group: the Dwarf Studies Department. The fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” or dwarf cinema classic Willow would be perfect for conference courses. And what about the effects of dwarfish imperialism on Keebler elf poetry? The philosopher race that are the Oompa-Loompas? The lines of intellectual inquiry are almost endless...
...Band arrangement of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and culminates in an enthralling jam session to, of all things, the song “Do Re Mi.” In between, Connick demonstrates a free-spirited maturity with his clever interpretations of the “Oompa Loompa Song” and “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead,” and sails through “A Spoonful of Sugar” with a bouncy, as well as surprising, harmonic depth. Following in the tradition of Miles Davis’ cover...
...admit that I base my hairstyle decisions entirely on the need to look like Willy Wonka. In freshman year, I had short hair and it was all about Larry Bird. But when my roommate woke me up one day with “but Daddy, I want an oompa loompa now!” I was pumped and knew instantly that this was my destiny...
...it’s opened so many doors for me. For example, it’s always handy to have an army of little oompa loompas at my beck and call 24/7. In junior year, our prom theme was based around my resemblance—Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...