Word: flooringly
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Dangereux didn't explicitly say he was finding the whole high-class restaurant thing pretentious. But what he did was to take over a small replica barn in a rustic-style shopping center in one of Cape Town's more distant suburbs, floor it with linoleum and call it the Food Barn. The result may be the best value fine dining on the continent, if not anywhere. Imagine half a dozen sensational oysters for $5. The perfect Japanese-style tuna tartare for $8. A bouillabaisse terrine set on mussels and a creamy saffron sauce for $10. Dangereux even persuaded...
...Cambridge, the first in a while, and the sun coming in through the window shines off his endearingly bald head. “The Hair of the Man,” a poem celebrating the joys of baldness, decorates the wooden door to his corner office on the 14th floor of William James. Entering his office is not unlike asking him a question—the result is a stream of new ideas and unexpected discoveries. On the giant bulletin board, strands of jewel-toned Mardi Gras beads dangle over journal articles and newspaper clippings. Tucked among his framed photographs...
...blinked again and then wiped the saliva from his moustache. Delicately and deliberately, Felicity loosened the ribbon at her throat. Her peignoir fell in a breath to the floor. Still he did not move...
...Uttering a guttural noise, Frederick took hold of her arms and threw her roughly to the floor. Their eyes met, and something passed between them that both had thought dead for many months. As Felicity looked up at him, breathing quickly and growling in anticipation of pleasure, Frederick lowered his trousers and descended upon...
...trousers, which were drooping at his ankles. He fastened his belt in silence and left the room without a word—stepping over her naked body on his way out the door. For an instant, Felicity lay there numbly. Then, with a curse, she picked herself off the floor and pulled her crumpled peignoir around her aching, unfulfilled flesh. He had done it on purpose, Felicity realized, furious. All he had wanted was to torment...