Word: ironizing
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...Burrell, star of the new Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, says she's likewise wary of intentionally abstruse menu language. "I find that the more intricate a menu description is, the more disappointing a dish usually is," says Burrell, Mario Batali's longtime sous chef on Iron Chef America. Burrell takes the same low-key approach to typography and design. At Centro Vinoteca, the New York City restaurant where she is executive chef, Burrell uses all lowercase letters in a basic Garamond font. "I prefer to underpromise and overdeliver...
...year ago, a slender girl called Cloud had no idea she would dedicate her life to lifting disks of iron above her head. Then a stranger came to her remote village in eastern China's Shandong province, took detailed measurements of her shoulder width, thigh length and waist circumference--and announced she would have the honor of serving her motherland as a weight lifter. The then 14-year-old daughter of vegetable farmers had little choice in the matter. She had been chosen to be a cog in China's vast sports machine, a multibillion-dollar apparatus designed with...
...intensive undertaking that, once finished, is cast off as an oddity and never repeated. But in 2008 it became for Obama the road test of a youth-oriented, technology-fueled organization and the model for many of the wins that followed. It was also a challenge to history. The iron rule of Iowa had always been that caucusgoers tended to look the same year in and year out: older people, union households, party stalwarts - just the kind of folks who would seem more inclined to back Clinton or John Edwards - trudging out into the cold night for a few hours...
...elimination of ongoing loans gives debt-free students the freedom to pursue opportunities in less financially profitable sectors, and the decision to stop considering home equity in ability-to-pay calculations prevents families from being penalized for notoriously shaky housing prices. Although the Financial Aid Office must still iron out details regarding which families are eligible for the 10 percent policy (only those with assets “typical for their income levels” receive such aid), the program is laudable overall, and will help cut down some of the remaining fences between privileged and underprivileged...
...runs the room with an iron fist. I’m kidding,” said committee member John M. Sheffield II ’09. “Meetings are pretty informal...