Word: flavorfully
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Many in the audience were fans of Vowell’s other historical accounts as well as her radio work, but, as Boston native John Kelly said, “‘The Wordy Shipmates’ has a definite local flavor...
...which 30-second video clips and a ceaseless stream of “Flavor of Love” spin-offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express...
...wants to remember “Pop Up Video.” VH1 was young then and hadn’t yet solidified the type of obnoxiousness it would perfect with “Flavor of Love.” I’ll never watch the video to “Goody Two Shoes” again for fear of that incessant “Pop Up Video” ping.I was afraid—viscerally afraid—that ReConstitution at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) was going to turn into Pop Up Debate...
...reaction to the potential axing of words has revealed specialized meanings that seem to have escaped the dictionary's compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively to describe an aroma note or type which is 'of the countryside,' such as hay, heather, forest depths or meadow." Who knew? Elsewhere, fantasy-game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed...
...that syrupy sweet taste and candy-red hue. So the 27-year-old began buying cherries from the local farmer's market and preserving them himself in maraschino liqueur. "It's just a cleaner, more vibrant taste," Doherty says. When he realized how much the homemade cherries improved the flavor of his drinks, he began experimenting with a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables - anything that could be added to a cocktail...