Word: comfortes
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...exception to the advertising rule that associates old with bad. In the post-9/11 era, that sentiment is growing stronger. "You're buying the same thing that someone bought in the '50s and '60s," says Breck Eisner, who directed the Burger King spot. "There's a certain comfort zone here...
Since Sept. 11, personal chefs have been inundated with requests for simple comfort foods like chicken pot pie and noodle soup. "People are still reluctant to go out to eat," says Candy Wallace, who heads the American Personal Chef Association. "They'd rather be home." Michael Zytowski, 33, a Long Beach, Calif., chef, agrees that current appetites run more toward pot roast than foie gras. "I haven't run into a client yet who wants Chateaubriand or lobster," he says...
Since Sept. 11, when America went on alert against terrorist strikes, there has been some small comfort in the knowledge that unlike al-Qaeda, most militant Islamic groups don't seek to attack targets inside the U.S. But the sickening rise in the number of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, and a spate of attacks last week against synagogues in Europe, raises a new worry: Could the intifadeh spread...
Perhaps more important than the offensive production to this year’s club is the comfort level that the infield has with each other...
...hierarchy, order and discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might be avoided, we muse in the academic comfort of a seminar room, if only everyone would read Habermas...