Word: feasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about celebrity; Clinton went for the ones who aren't blase, who pay the high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure, it's hard to give up traffic control and Air Force One. But he makes himself a movable feast, providing sidewalk entertainment to a surprised group of rock fans waiting for the Dave Matthews Band in front of the Rihga Royal hotel. A frequent sight on the New York-to-Washington shuttle, where the prevailing ethic is no eye contact, Clinton works the aisles until forced to take...
...mice of action. My wife opened a kitchen cabinet the other day and caught two of them using their tiny, humanish hands to unscrew the top from a jar of Skippy 25% reduced fat chunky peanut butter. Two nights later, amazingly, they succeeded, and rewarded themselves with a mouse feast that left the peanut butter half gone and, all around the jar, a triumphant scattering of scats, which look like chocolate sprinkles...
...feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards. But the plumbing is modern: warmed and soothed by a soak in the deep, hot bath, we eat dinner wearing long, cotton yukata gowns and sitting on the floor at low, lacquered tables. The innkeeper produces a feast of baked river fish and mountain-grown vegetables, which we wash down with cold beer and warm sake...
Once again, June 28--the feast of St. Vitus in the Christian Orthodox calendar--had written itself into the history of the Balkans. On St. Vitus day in 1389, Serbs were defeated by the Turks at the battle of Kosovo Polje, the event that launched Serbian claims to eternal victimhood. On the same day in 1914, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, plunging Europe into World War I. And on the same day in 1989, Milosevic--speaking at Kosovo Polje--launched his career as the defender of Serbian nationalism. Twelve years later, he finds himself imprisoned...
Over last weekend, timed to the Feast of San Ranieri, Pisa's patron saint, the plaza beneath the tower was reopened to the public. The tower itself will be reopened in the fall--but only to 30 visitors at a time, accompanied by a guide. And no leaning...