Word: picnics
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Their three acres, a 10-minute walk from the small hilltop village of Viens, feature a garden with the requisite stone picnic table, a fountain waiting for a plumber and a driveway requiring four-wheel-drive vehicles. "The initial appeal of this area was due to all of the trite stuff, like the light, the food and the countryside," says Strait, 56, a former lawyer who once lived in Paris for five years. "We loved this part of France and wanted to get a new place while we both made the transition from full-time work to something completely different...
...stage during shows). Continuing in their appreciation of down home cuisine, sincere thanks were sent to the Boston Blue Ribbon Barbecue for the "best ribs and sweet potato pie I've ever had," an altruistic acknowledgement of the fact that even northerners can cook up a decent picnic spread...
...Bachelor;" he recorded some spoken-word fairy tales with hipster lingo that became hits and a book (the still-funny "Bop Fables"); he published a collection of short stories ("Fourteen for Tonight") and a study of TV comics ("The Funny Men"); he wrote the lyrics for movie themes ("Picnic," "Bell, Book and Candle"); and he started a Sunday-night variety hour, "The Steve Allen Show." By then he was so busy he let Ernie Kovacs host "The Tonight Show" on Mondays and Tuesdays. Kovacs ascended to his own level of TV-comedy immortality, and Jack Paar took over "Tonight...
...like taking a day off of work, and then getting paid to go to the company picnic," council secretary John F. Bash '03 said...
When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...