Word: fragrantly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night is chilly and we ask a passing waiter to light one of the open fires. It's slow to kindle so, at Andy's suggestion, G. removes a perfume spray from a display range of spa products and, holding a cigarette lighter in front of the nozzle, produces fragrant jets of flame. I pose these miscreants, fully dressed and shod, for a group photo in G.'s bath-cum-Jacuzzi. Not much smaller than the large swimming pool in the spa, it's one of many flourishes that distinguish the 33 bedrooms from each other and from the accommodation...
...straw in the wind. The country's new government is using the broadcaster as its outlet of choice in a campaign to "purify" Poland, an effort that has included attacks on critical journalists, on an "alcoholic" civil service, on the former communist "establishment" and on the central bank. This fragrant brew of right-wing populist causes is likely to become more pungent this week, when talks to form a coalition government could result in an important post - Deputy Prime Minister - for Andrzej Lepper. Leader of the Self-Defense party, Lepper is a radical populist who has been convicted of assault...
...rational and is often extravagant, and I'll take it wherever I can find it. That may be in simple fish shacks or Neapolitan pizzerias, but it's most likely to appear in luxurious temples dedicated to its worship, where its high priests present congregants with rich and fragrant offerings. Just one bite, and I'm transported. At those moments, money means nothing to me. I'm grateful to pay for a taste of the transcendent...
...City. By middle school, though, her parents' Pakistani culture had become uncool. "I wanted to fit in so bad," Ahmed says. For her, that meant trying to be white. She dyed her hair blond, got hazel contact lenses and complained, "I'm going to smell," when her mom served fragrant dishes like lamb biryani for dinner. But at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says, become "a good balance of East meets West." Now 23, she and her non-Asian roommates threw a party to mark the Islamic...
...Indonesia is a best-selling one, a distinction Ayu Utami earned after the 1998 release of her first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been reprinted 34 times, has made Utami the leading light of a genre dubbed "sastra wangi," or fragrant lit, the local term for a new wave of wildly popular female authors dealing with once-forbidden themes of sex, power and corruption...