Word: drippingly
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...both Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within six lines of each other. Almost every one of Halberstam's media moguls are "geniuses," one way or another. Almost every reporter in the book is described as "brilliant" and "fiercely independent." Halberstam's villains, like CBS programmer James Aubrey, fairly drip bile off the page...
...improved version of the so-called yard-long bean, a.k.a. Orient Express or asparagus bean because of its asparaginous flavor. From China come bitter melon, gow choy, a garlicky chive, bok choy cabbage, and an aromatic celery, heung kuhn -all valuable for good wokmanship. A Japanese melon called Honey Drip is described by its originators as "intolerably delicious." Vegetable growers, generally a conservative lot, have been slow to pick up on an unusual variety called vegetable spaghetti: it is a member of the squash family that, when opened up, yields oodles of non-noodles that can be prepared exactly like...
...agency's activities, trumpeted their own bureaucratic righteousness. T.V.A.'s chief solicitor said, "The story of these people has been told to the point of nausea. There ought to be some point where reporters would tell things as they are instead of indulging in a lot of sentimental drip...
...behest of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 37,000 militant Iranian oil workers and technicians had virtually closed down the country's production, reducing the oil flow from 6 million bbl. a day to a drip of 75,000 bbl. Last week, as if to demonstrate his absolute mastery, Khomeini ordered workers to allow enough crude production from the fields to satisfy Iran's 900,000-bbl. domestic needs-but no more. TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis visited the oilfields in the southern province of Khuzestan as militant workers returned to their jobs. His report...
...context, practicing a deeply felt but homeless (and culturally impossible) totemism. Some, like Pollock, drew direct inspiration from Southwest Indian art, transforming it-as in The Key, 1946-into the congested, baroque rhetoric of shape which would later be refined as the allover skeins and webs of his drip paintings. Still and Rothko regarded their art as mediumistic: it was, Still declared, a way of "being with in a revelation," and this kind of priestly bombast was a regular feature of abstract expressionist utterances. Painting accumulated resonance by appealing to myth...