Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
...roommate is being followed by hordes of admirers who bring her goodies: ice cream, flowers, candy. She isn't interested in any of them, and she keeps telling me that. And I guess she does try to tell them to go away. I've heard her explaining that she doesn't want to go out with them. But I think she should give her presents back. Instead she enjoys the ice cream and says they're only too happy to give it to her. Am I right or is she? --Righeous Roommate...
...promising announcements were made at an obesity conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the first, researchers reported they may have found the chemical in the brain that triggers a person's craving for fat, as well as a way to block its action. Another group said it had developed a cream, not yet available to the public, that can melt fat from a woman's legs. After applying the salve for five weeks, 24 women reduced their thigh size...
...definitive American landscape in which many of these `new' immigrants--foreign students--are finding themselves. The glimpse of Feroza sitting with her uncle and his friend in front of Holyoke Center at an unidentified outdoor cafe, watching street performers while "self-consciously sipping coffee in the American way, without cream or sugar," is especially endearing...
...privileged to work here," says carpenter steward Power. "And they are privileged to have us--the cream of the crop of construction workers...