Word: bloomingly
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...When the bloom was on the roads, the American who would not-or could not-drive a car was dismissed as a sponger or a dimwit, doomed to a life of dependence on alien wheels and, quite likely, celibacy. The nondriver was a rara Avis (though he could not rent one), akin to the kiwi, a bird that cannot fly. In a country that relies so heavily on the auto for its bread and butter and most of its honey, he was seen and often scorned as a kind of self-decreed cripple...
...house on Pacific Palisades, except for the occasional yip of a dog, and, of course, the eternal sound of California?the whir of a well-tuned car. Outside, the Secret Service patrolled the bougainvillea on streets with liquid, Spanish names. Reagan's face was ruddy, in bloom, growing younger by the second...
...allows the poet and his voice to emerge naturally out of the biographical narrative. Whenever Kaplan does choose to intervene, he enhances his portrait with appropriate comparisions, or soft-spoken but astute analysis. In one case, Kaplan contrasts a friendship between Whitman and an intimate acquaintance, Peter Doyle, to Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in the cabmen's shelter in Ulysses, and Nathanial West's own "Peter Doyle" holding hands with Miss Lonely hearts at a speakeasy...
...interest in food and wine, they decided to recast their menus to emphasize "the best and freshest seasonal foods" and, rather than pay slavish obeisance to Continental cuisine, create food in an American idiom. In this, with Swiss Chef Josef ("Seppi") Renggli, they have succeeded admirably; their prize recipes bloom in all of The Four Seasons (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). Unlike many books by more celebrated restaurateurs, The Four Seasons trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic souffl...
...wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected." The bulk of these lectures consists of rapt, minute scrutiny of such trifles. Nabokov does a virtual time-and-motion study of the daylong "dance of fate" between Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. He reads volumes into Flaubert's use of the word and in Madame Bovary. Under his microscope, the "flushed prism" of Proust's style reveals a particular rose-purple mauve as the precise color of time...