Word: honeying
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...Gapification of America has been sneaking up on us for more than a decade, and now, with the omnipresence of wellmade, monchromal cotton sweaters, of grilled chicken sandwiches with honey mustard sauce, of blond wood and black halogen floor lamps, it has finally triumphed. It is a victory for democracy: these products are relatively cheap, handsome and well made. No one has ever looked ugly in a Gap shirt...
Your boss has referred to the women in the office as "skirts" or has addressed you as "honey." How do you get him to stop...
MARTIN: If it's a first offense, you can treat it lightly. He may be a well- meaning man who has always called women "honey" and needs to be educated. But if it continues, you should be firm and say, "I prefer to be addressed as Miss Smith...
...Remember honey?" she said, slapping her husband on the belly, "They told us about him at the information office...
Alexander could not quote extensively from Plath's work, as that would require cooperation of the estate. When the reader does, however, run across the poet's own words, they are always memorable. She speaks of America as the "land of milk & honey & spindryers." And when asked to comment on vital issues of the day, Plath describes herself as preoccupied with "the incalculable genetic effects of fallout...and the terrifying, mad, omnipotent marriage of big business and the military in America." The quotes effectively lure the reader back to the power of Plath's words, reminding that she was first...