Word: holidaying
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...lovers' holiday in the west turned into a quasi-feminist chocolate orgy is unclear. The the first Valentine's sale in Japan took place in 1958 and Tokyo chocolatier Mary Chocolate's event generated 150 yen total in sales (the company sold three bars of chocolate in three days). Nevertheless, the marketing opportunity would not be lost in translation. According to the Chocolate & Cocoa Association of Japan, of the $3.6 billion annual sale of chocolate in 2005 (the latest available year), $400 million, or over 10% was spent during the crucial days leading up to Valentine's. This year, Japanese...
...game in middle school, or even that my “romantic” encounters went at all beyond shy flirtation with my stand-partner in orchestra. But regardless of the actual outcome of any Valentine’s Day shenanigans, the real tension in the holiday comes from the possibility of some sort of spark. So it was with great deflation that I anticipated my first Valentine’s Day as a freshman at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart…with 47 other women...
Being single on Valentine’s Day is the stereotypical nightmare scenario. But in an environment where few romantic liaisons occur, the pressure’s off, and I was free to revel in the indulgences of this pointless holiday regardless of whether or not I was “attached.” Once I set that precedent, it was hard to go back into being a V-Day hater. Since then, I have spent Valentine’s Day with boyfriends and without boyfriends, and I think that spending it “alone?...
...when the search engine giant put up a Valentine's Day logo on Wednesday that seemed to read "Googe.com" - featuring a chocolate-covered strawberry for the "g" - bloggers thought it was just a bizarre bungling of the holiday Google "doodles" that decorate the site's logo throughout the year. Or perhaps it was a quirky romance-laced joke? The Puget News blog noted that 'Googe' might be a subtle reference to the 16th century romantic poet Barnabe Googe, famous for the line, "I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die." Or maybe...
...drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound of Jazz, which showcased Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and others in what are now deemed some of the finest performances in jazz history...