Word: honeying
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...couple facing two very big problems. One, their marriage is arid and joyless. And two, they both, each unbeknownst to the other, are topflight assassins at rival agencies. When professional circumstances pit the Smiths against each other, a hilarious fire fight between two trained killers ensues ("I missed you, honey" becomes a double entendre), which somehow, mysteriously, becomes a portrait of a marriage rediscovering its lost flame. It's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with concussion grenades...
...kind of beer, one designed for women like her. "The big companies had looked at a beer for women and shied away because the product was watery," she says. She began poring over beer recipes and came up with a 200-year-old brew that used rose hips. Her Honey Amber Rose is only 110 calories per bottle and carries a logo of a Latin-looking woman in a broad-brimmed red hat and a red dress with folds resembling a rose. "If you want to taste sweet success," the bottle says, "look for the woman in the rose-petal...
...least from inside a glass case) a feeling of sacerdotal calm rather than ferocity, like a wonderful 17th century helmet in the form of a courtier's hat, rising like an inverted keel some two feet above the head and decorated in a tortoiseshell pattern of black and honey-colored lacquer. Others seem not to be there--a helmet, for instance, covered with a wig of animal hair to mimic a young man's coiffure, thus fooling an enemy into thinking the samurai is helmetless...
...more benign: juicy sauerkraut glowing with paprika, subtle tarragon-scented fish soup and mushroom-stuffed carp, crisp roast goose and leg of veal with goose liver, kohlrabi nestled in egg barley and, for a delicate touch, "blushing tomatoes in sour cherry vinegar." Eggplant, cornmeal, strudels and the fragrant honey cake mézeskalács are all included...
...changes in pressure and the influx of water, may act to melt the already softened rock. Minerals and water then coalesce with the molten material into viscous, tear-shaped packets known as diapirs. Because they are more buoyant than surrounding rock, the diapirs percolate upward, like bubbles rising through honey, melting more rock as they go. Eventually they accumulate in pockets called magma chambers, located two miles to 15 miles underground. If the magma is very liquid and gases can escape gradually, a volcano may lie fallow for long periods of time...