Word: plated
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David O. Russell, dapper and dark haired, sitting in his plush suite at the Four Seasons hotel with a plate of asparagus and carrots in front of him, which he was fastidiously eating with a fork, was available to answer questions, while his dapper and baseball-capped personal assistant, James, fielded the phone calls that kept coming in. Though his first two movies were 'indie' (if such a word is relevant any more) the luxury in which he reposed seemed indicative of his move to the major studios...
...have enough classes on your plate, you can fill it up with John Willoughby's Radcliffe class A103, "Writing About Food...
...have heard of Eddie Gaedel. At 3'7, he is the shortest person ever to play in a major-league game. In a stunt in 1951, Bill Veeck, owner of the St. Louis Browns, sent Gaedel to bat. He instructed Gaedel to stand at the plate and not swing and Gaedel promptly walked on four pitches...
Moonlight Graham actually did exist and, although some of the facts of his life were changed for the movie, he did only play in one major-league inning and never made it to the plate...
...fever pitch in Russia, amid the climate of panic generated by the recent apartment bombings. The authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst military debacle since Afghanistan...