Word: flavorings
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...example, is as Deep South in feeling as Savannah, Ga.; West Texas is truly western. Miami Beach is as much a suburb of New York?or Havana?as a Florida city. Yet there is much that knits this land and holds it together, with its own special character and flavor and language. If the South cannot be totally explored, it can at least be seen as reality, not as legend...
Flannery O'Connor wrote: ''A half-hour's ride in this region will take one from places where the life has a distinctly Old Testament flavor to places where the life might be considered post-Christian. Yet all these varied situations can be seen in one glance and heard in one conversation...
...under glass more than mementos in a Texas museum? For one thing, sheer theatricality. Jones is a master of timing. He knows just when to end a scene, and exactly how much sentimentality to balance against exactly how much humor. Above all, he has an ear for dialogue. The flavor of A Texas Trilogy is finally the flavor of its speech -the drawling, lip-smacking pleasure of one drinker saying of another, "Hell, Skip wouldn't pass up a drink if he had to squeeze it out of an armadillo...
...moderate instincts warn me against Dole's smart-alecky shallowness as he stalks arrogantly along. There is something of the Nixon-Agnew flavor here. I wonder uneasily how distressing it would be should this glib practitioner, by some unfortunate circumstance, become President...
...decided to challenge Coke's 3-to-l sales lead in the Dallas area. (Nationally, Coke is estimated to hold 26.2% of the market, compared with Pepsi's 17.4%.) Pepsi concocted a promotion supposedly showing that more than half the Coke drinkers tested preferred Pepsi's flavor when the two colas were stripped of brand identification. During the test, Coke was served in a glass marked Q and Pepsi in a glass marked M. Within a year Pepsi had whittled Coke's sales lead in Dallas to 2 to 1. Irritated, Coke officials conducted their...