Word: confectioner
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If traditions are bending in the Evening News, they are snapping in the Morning News. On March 15, Sauter's CBS will unveil a new version of the traditionally hard-news-oriented morning report, fashioned to compete directly against NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning...
The signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church.
Genus jelly bean is a descendant of Turkish delight, a gelatinous confection dating from biblical times, and a French technique called panning, in which the soft centers are hard-coated with syrup and sugar; the process takes up to two weeks. Goelitz plants in California and Chicago are now on...
And so it careers from cutesie-poo dream sequences to bondage-and-discipline revenge, from a giggly hen party to an answer to the working woman's prayer: a "liberated" work space, complete with racial harmony, reformed alcoholics, a day-care center and athletic amputees vaulting merrily from wheelchair...
WHEN ASKED HOW his new costume--a beaded, bangled confection--feels, the young Nijinsky replies, "It weighs a ton." So does Nijinsky. Agonizingly slow, the movie staggers under the feathers and furbelows of opulent sets and exotic locales. Ironically, the director who did so much to popularize ballet in The...