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...just saw the new issue of Cosmopolitan. For those of us who still don't feel clean enough, there is a new product on the market-a mod douche. Called "Cupid's Quiver," these "pre-measured sachets of liquid concentrate" come in four flavors: Orange Blossom, Raspherry, Jasmine and Champagne. "Relax," the ad commands. "And enjoy the revolution...
Then, overnight, Rumania's warm Latinate temperament-and Ceausescu's determined policy of independence-began to blossom. Workmen decked out the motorcade route with U.S. and Rumanian flags, newspapers bannered the arrival, and factory workers-let off their jobs several hours early-began streaming out to Otopeni Airport. By the time President and Mrs. Nixon stepped into the brilliant Bucharest sunshine, some 600,000 Rumanians had lined up to provide the warmest and most tumultuous welcome of Nixon's trip. The joviality continued into the evening, when Ceausescu put on a splashy state dinner in the marbled...
...impossible to synthesize the cumulative effect of such a play. The Hostage usually seems to proceed, like a variety show, from one comedy bit to another. Then, suddenly, it will stop. Some of the two-dimensional characters we've been laughing at fade into the background while others blossom into real three-dimensional human beings. The result are often quite moving. When Leslie (in which role Michael Sacks is again perfectly cast--in his khaki he seems out of a World War II movie, an English Van Heflin both in costume and good spirits), the British soldier stops...
...write: "By any standard of rational judgment, the monarchy, of course, is no longer necessary. However, there is a difference between a nation's rational and emotional needs." Presumably, the emotional needs of the U.S. are satisfied by having Princess Kay of the Milky Way, the Cherry Blossom Queen, the Queen of the Snows, the Raspberry Queen, the Rose Bowl Queen and thousands of other pseudo-royalty...
Died. Frank King, 86, cartoonist, creator of the classic comic strip Gasoline Alley; of a heart attack; in Winter Park, Fla. In 1918, King invented Walt Wallet and his auto-buff cronies (later including Skeezix, Phyllis Blossom and many others) as part of a page of drawings for the Chicago Tribune; within a year Gasoline Alley was popular enough to run as a separate feature, recording the trials and triumphs of the Wallet family in what was once called "a quiet, faithful, tender picture of suburban America...