Word: creamed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...slow, muscle-bound, awed, overwhelmed. But the Phillies were Rocky. After vaulting from last place to first in their division in one year, and after being gassed by the Braves in two of the first three postseason games, the Phils got mad and even. They would not be cheesesteak cream puffs; they would be winners. The town's legendarily cranky fans answered the ''tomahawk chop'' of Atlanta admirers with the sign TOMAHAWK SCHMOMAHAWK, while the Phils summoned a very '90s street attitude. ''Beat this,'' they told the Braves, and took Atlanta four games to two. America's city...
...northern Polish towns I've visited—Maków Mazowiecki, Ostroleka, and Rózan—have pizza parlors, ice cream stores, and coffee shops, and most of the teenagers I've talked to are quite similar to their American counterparts. However, some things provide sharp reminders that this is a foreign country. The food isn't terribly strange—kebabs, hamburgers, and open-faced, toasted subs called zapiekanki are popular—but Chinese food is generally regarded with suspicion and distaste, and Mexican food is unheard of. In the U.S., passing...
...begin by stipulating that Irish coffee is brilliant: no sensible person can argue with caffeine and whiskey topped with cream and served in a warm mug. Irish coffee has been sold in bars since the 1950s, if not earlier, so it's surprising that it took so long for the alcohol industry to come up with a canned version of caffeinated booze called alcoholic energy drinks...
...exacting standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. The 272 attendees, who paid up to $10,000 each, included a smattering of European royalty, Bianca Jagger, Wall Street grandees Wilbur Ross and Stephen Schwarzman, and the cream of Houston high society. Thrash flew in her Los Angeles decorator, and says she was so nervous about the arrangements that "by 6 p.m. I was looking for a cyanide capsule." This wasn't any old fund raiser: it was held for the Louvre, in the Louvre - in the vaulted Galerie...
...Earthworm Has Turned Inevitably, some people have serious misgivings about what Loyrette is up to. Just ask Marc Fumaroli, one of 40 members of the Académie Française, the cream of the French intelligentsia, who are known as "the immortals." He's chairman of the Society of Friends of the Louvre, a 111-year-old French association that helps finance some of the museum's acquisitions. Its popularity has been waning, but with 70,000 members, most of whom pay a $100 annual subscription, it still has some clout - even if it doesn't formally have...