Word: flavorings
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...generations; Detroit Tiger baseball fans lazed to commercials for Stroh's on hot summer afternoons. In the 1970s Easterners began smuggling Stroh's out of its Midwestern market, turning it into somewhat of a cult beverage. Stroh's claimed to have a special flavor brought on by "fire brewing" in vats over direct flame instead of the steam-heated vats used by other brewers...
WRIGHT WORKS BEST in the free verse form, where he lets each idea run to the end of its rope. In these poems, he conveys a sense of the supernatural and twists conventional symbolism until it imparts an eerie, ephemeral flavor. Nature can be cruel here. In "The Vestal in the Forum," he writes...
...scene. The reverse is central to the poem, and Wright makes it universal simply by allowing it to grow larger than the words. Similarly, in "Wherever Home Is," he allows a statue of Leonardo da Vinci to filter into his mind and emerge uncontrollable on paper. He relishes the flavor of da Vinci's life and the historical impression he is left with: affectionately he calls Leonardo a "madman" and wanders off in the sun with the artist. The last stanza is memorable...
Blessing gives his characters a pungent flavor. Old John Law (Ray Fry), a legendary pitcher who is being honored, is a laconic curmudgeon who seems to hate baseball now and to have loathed the fans in his days of glory. Add on: the whisky-swigging, pot-bellied manager (Frederic Major), the clubhouse clown (William McNulty), the Hispanic outsider Jesus Luna (Dierk Toporzysek) and the multi millionaire superstar (Mel Johnson...
...that each of the openers doesn't have its own distinct flavor. In '79, the crowd was talking mostly about the disappointment of the year before, and Rice. Evans and Lynn all homered. Two years ago, the star was Eckersley in a close 3-1 pitchers' duel...