Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer's close, conflicted ties to his birthplace give his work its special flavor, not to mention its distinctive sense of the not quite familiar. Richler's raffish characters could be from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, except that they are nuts about hockey, spice their conversation with French as well as Yiddish and have legal access to Cuban cigars...
Duritz started the "Local Flavor League," enlisted 50 volunteers into his cause and braved the cold weather on Saturday morning to hand out leaflets encouraging consumers to "Boycott Starbucks" outside the front door of the new shop...
...unable to afford a round trip from Logan to Heathrow and a two month Eurailpass and too lazy to take more than the required amount of Foreign Cultures courses, Jan Morris compresses 50 years of Europe into fewerthan 400 pages. Amazingly, she man-ages to capture much of the flavor, the undefinable essence of the myriad nations and cultures that compose the European community. Even more amazing, though, is the fact that the book is actually, at times, boring...
...Wednesday Book Club gathered in the living room of Dorothy Peterson, a farm widow whose house sits behind a curtain of corn on the outskirts of town. These well-traveled women, accomplished in fields from accounting to medicine, love Wilmington and swear it hasn't lost its small-town flavor. But as they talk, their effusions give way to worry about crime, development, strangers in their midst. Each woman carries a fantasy Wilmington in her mind and sees only the problems that intrude on that ideal. They make it clear that Wilmington isn't a community anymore--it is dozens...
...mournful nuance to otherwise unprofound lyrics. In much the same way, the flute arrangement on "Your Eyes" augments the nomadic gypsy rhythm of the song itself, and horns on "I Can't Wait" mirror the impatience and expectation of the lyrics. Meanwhile, keyboard accompaniment lends an original flavor to the rest of the standard Sundays fare...