Word: diamonde
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...stayed up to make sure he did not do anything to himself. They had loved each other very much--or so she had thought. He had bagged groceries at the supermarket where she worked and brought her roses nearly every week. He gave her a nice diamond when he proposed. Her parents loved him. They kept a neat home in spite of small salaries (she worked a cash register; he retreaded tires at a Goodyear plant). Now they had three bedrooms: one spare, one sheltering the shards of a marriage, one painfully bereft of a baby...
Onlookers applauded when Sophie arrived with her father, a former tire salesman. Considerably less crinolined than the dresses of Diana and Sarah, Sophie's fitted silk-organza-and-crepe gown nevertheless boasted 325,000 cut-glass and pearl beads and a formidable train. Her veil was affixed with a diamond tiara borrowed from the Queen...
...should jump on those opportunities. If you've always wanted to write poetry but never thought it would be taken seriously, do it now. If you wanted to play intramural softball but the nerds at your school (I'm assuming you were one) were laughed off the diamond, this is your chance. If you never felt comfortable asserting your ethnicity, your religion (or lack thereof) or your sexuality, this is your time...
...scarf and matching muff, she handily offends feminists, animal-rights activists and good Christians everywhere, and she wins, because shimmering, jewel-encrusted, heedless movie stardom defeats all common morality. Her wit completes her cosmic victory, particularly in her facial expression of painful, soul-wrenching yearning when gazing upon a diamond tiara, a trinket she initially attempts to wear around her neck. Discovering the item's true function, she burbles, "I always love finding new places to wear diamonds!" Movies can offer a very specific bliss, the gorgeousness of a perfectly lighted fairy tale. Watching Marilyn operate her lips and eyebrows...
LIFESAVER Back-country skiers, snowboarders and mountaineers who get buried in avalanches will soon have a new way to stay alive while waiting to be rescued. The AvaLung by Black Diamond Equipment ($200, available in September) is a special mesh vest designed to keep snow from melting around the face and freezing into a deadly ice mask. A tube filters fresh air into the wearer's mouth and then channels warm, moist, exhaled air safely out the back...