Word: bibelot
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...Massimo Morozzi: Alessi Bottle Opener The Italian company Alessi has produced a witty kitchen bibelot from nearly every item of houseware. Now it has got around to the lowly bottle opener. Perhaps inspired by a mental picture of millions of infantilized men sucking on beer bottles as they watch football (or soccer) on TV, Morozzi used the baby rattle as a model, producing a jumbo-size plastic opener that is both playful and elegant. It comes in black and white and -- yes -- blue and pink...
...sting out of things that hurt") neatly defines the dividing line between generations. The young laugh at the way things seem; the middle-aged laugh at the way things are. What are her pleasures apart from husband, children, work and friends? "I'm an insane furniture and bibelot buyer. I love the ocean-it's one of the last free places on earth." Betty Bacall has also learned the ultimate wisdom of the middle years, to live in the here and now: "There are things in life that are pretty rotten. The part that's good...
...well-bred lines in the Social Register, and enough money to buy Hollywood-her mother is Marjorie Post May of the $100 million Post Toasties fortune, and her husband. Stanley Rumbough, gets a big squeeze from the Colgate toothpaste tube. To top it off, an extra little bibelot has now come Deenie's way. "As a token of affection," both her father-in-law and mother-in-law, whose deaths came four months apart, left her bequests...
...bibelot: any little thing that costs more...
Most people buy books to read. Literary people buy them to reread. Bibliophiles buy them to see, touch and to ponder their histories. Shrewd men buy them to sell. More and more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type...
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