Word: elixir
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That's when I knew the crisis might last forever--well before the President's speech last week on saving fossil fuel and even before Hurricane Katrina hit, when gas finally went the way of water and coffee and turned from a modest, ordinary liquid into a fancy, specialized elixir. The signs of change were coming nonstop. At the Costco warehouse store in Bozeman, 50 miles from my home in Livingston, I stopped bumping into my neighbors on Saturday mornings in the cavernous dog-and-cat-food aisle. They had stayed home, buying kibble by the normal-size bag rather...
...South Boston, Lydia goes to work in an upscale department store, where she meets medical student Henry Wickett, the neurasthenic scion of a Brahmin family. The two soon marry. With a newfound robustness that he attributes to Lydia's love, Henry decides to chuck his studies and create an elixir to combat loneliness. He intends its curative powers to result from encouraging letters he includes with the product rather than any medicinal properties of the liquid. The remedy is only mildly successful, but it attracts a business partner, Quentin Driscoll, who envisions turning the sweet-tasting tonic into a bottled...
...think boomers are going to join the Junior League and have tea," she says. When they do the cost/benefit analysis of staying in a job they dislike or taking a leap of faith, more and more women are ready to jump. "I think part of the elixir is the learning. Part is the control. Part of the reason is just the idea, 'I better take control of my own nest egg because no one else is going...
...might as well pretend to be a chicken. But not in 17th century Japan, where rabbits symbolized long life and virility and were a favored helmet motif. (Americans see an old man in the moon; Japanese saw the silhouette of a rabbit with mortar and pestle, pounding out the elixir of life.) Likewise, the clam is peaceable to us; but when one sees the magnificent 17th century helmet in this show, with the two halves of a clam shell in black lacquered leather rising from the crest like the wings of the Angel of Death, its power as an image...
...should Dartboard’s “relationship” with that golden, ambrosia-like elixir of caffeine, taurine, guarana and vitamin B (see—it’s good for you) come under so much scrutiny? Have eight servings of Diet Coke a day or spend half of your income on Starbucks—if you did, you certainly wouldn’t be the only one here—and no one blinks an eye. But should you choose to get half that number of hits a day from a sleek blue and silver can, prepare...