Word: platters
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...wrap, perhaps, if you imagine the familiar thin tortilla-like casing replaced with extra fluffy crust-free white bread devoid of any hint of soggyness despite its precarious position spiraled perfectly around melted cheese and thin, warm ham. It was cut in half, placed on a platter of crispy, hand-cut, lightly salted potato chips and set in front of me in the bar room of the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona. It was the summer before my senior year and I was celebrating the end of my 10-week magazine internship in New York with a week spent gloriously feasting...
...come November. Though both Democrats have shown the ability to raise bigmoney online, McCain has been struggling to catch Internet fever. While his rivals rake in bundles of cash in small-dollar checks, McCain makes the rounds of hotel ballrooms, charming wealthy donors with traditional chicken dinners and fruit-platter mixers. In March he attended 26 fund raisers in 24 cities, raising about $15 million, with roughly one-third of it coming from the Web. Obama attended just six events in the same period, yet his campaign raised three times as much, 2 mostly online...
...point of either inevitable climax or collapse—and often both. Though Millhauser may expand the ideas behind his stories to points way beyond reality, his creations stand like fragmented prompts for the reader to consider rather than a set of answers neatly handed to her on a platter. Millhauser’s characters wade through his stories thirsting to perceive a world beyond the limitations of their senses and their environment, like Plato’s cave dwellers striving to conceptualize an unseen world. The key to this—or, rather...
This was, the fans declared, a victory for the People's Dog, the dog next door, albeit one bred for glory, since Uno is the great-granddoggy of a famous champion of the 1990s. With victory come the spoils, steak on a silver platter at Sardi's, a chance to ring the opening bell on Wall Street. Anticipating a rush to beagle breeders, veterans had one piece of advice for would-be parents: Be sure to get a fence first...
...first product, a slingshot. The pair (above, with Knerr at right) produced such iconic American toys turned fads as Silly String, the SuperBall, the hula hoop (25 million sold in four months) and the Frisbee. They created the last after they spotted an Air Force pilot flying his "Pluto Platter" on the beach and bought the rights. In 1982 they sold the company for $12 million. Knerr...