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Latter-Day Monsters. The new volume, priced at a modest $60, contains more than 13,000 new and often exotic words, or new meanings for old words, along with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a...
New Brews. As rising coffee prices break through the $3-per-lb. barrier, consumers are eying all kinds of exotic substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea...
Avon's editors believe the question echoes a cry from the hearts of millions of American wives and mothers. These women, says an Avon executive, are sick of being used as domestic drudges and emotional garbage bags. "They identify with Rosemary's heroines because the heroines do everything...
The show does not so much advance toward the 20th century as peter out in it-a curious evolution, owing perhaps to the difficulty of getting the right pictures lent-and the last section, spanning about 1900 to 1950, makes the contribution of women to modern art seem less than...
The names−YFG-50, Boron XT and the XRC−conjure up visions of supersonic test planes or supercharged racing cars. But the sobriquets belong to tennis racquets, crafted in strange shapes of exotic materials, and designed to bestow court greatness on weekend hackers. In search of a bigger...