Word: comfortes
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Zalickas may be an unusually gifted writer, but her experiences are startlingly universal. She grew up in Massachusetts, majored in English at Syracuse University, and then moved to New York to work in publishing. Along the way—starting with a tumbler of Southern Comfort at age 14—drinking trailed Zalickas on her path. Alcohol is the lens through which she views her adolescent development. In the book she tries to chart who she has become and why, and mainly, to make sense of all the things that simply don?...
...instance, the troubling interaction of A with herself at different stages takes place within her head as she lies comatose. Her past selves bring her no comfort; C is horrified at what she has become, and B is casually cruel to both. For Albee, clearly, memories counter-intuitively bring pain rather than comfort...
Tucked away in a maze of bars by the MIT campus, this converted warehouse features the friendliest billiards in town. The star here, though, isn’t the dozen pool tables, but the affordable comfort food. Start off with the down-home pulled pork sandwich ($7.95; on wax paper that says, “DELICIOUS”), then end with the Volcano Cake ($4.95). With the chocolate dessert, Flat Top Johnny’s serves a pile of whipped cream with a maraschino cherry—and while too rich for one, it’s the perfect size...
...government could spur global warming to make the weather much more pleasant in the winter. Imagine the quality of life increase for all the New England residents who could go outside in the middle of January with nothing but a T-shirt and shorts. In addition to the added comfort, more moderate temperatures would eliminate problems associated with icy roads and pathways, which currently cost billions of dollars in direct medical costs and indirect situational costs (such as the inability for people to drive to work on certain days...
...Cusworth] is still learning to find his comfort zone near the rim...He’s making great progress,” Sullivan said. “He’s gotten some good looks the last couple nights...