Word: jarring
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...flavor. Tosc’s encourages its employees to mix up new tastes, and originals often end up as popular as the basics. One staple, “Burnt Caramel,” was the result of a lucky cooking accident. Branigan gestures a freckled hand toward a jar labeled “Hot Pepper Paste.” Inspired by the suggestion of a Korean coworker, he’s mixed up today’s trial run of “Spicy Red Bean...
...Tarantino's trademark bouts of verbal incontinence and off-color humor are reserved for the script's meticulously detailed stage directions. One scene has The Bride "goin' Krakatoa all over whoever's ass happens to be in front of her at that time." Another calls for "the most disgusting jar of Vaseline in the history of cinema." Whereas in other screenplays the words "they fight" would suffice, Tarantino devotes most of the script?which took him nearly two years to complete?to outlining the action. He lays out precise requirements, dictating which historical genres are to be evoked ("a Shaw...
...biggest risk factors is drugs. People with a genetic predisposition to bipolar disorders live on an unstable emotional fault line. Jar things too much with a lot of recreational chemistry, and the whole foundation can break away, especially when the drugs of choice are cocaine, amphetamines or other stimulants. "We do think that use of stimulating drugs is playing a part in lowering the age of onset," says Hirschfeld...
...scrambling to digest its implications. The traits that Toumai exhibits are what may be expected in a 7 million-year-old ape inhabiting woodlands whose origin predates the human-African ape divergence. The fossil record is far too complete for any one single ape fossil to jar the expectations of any serious paleontologist. ESTEBAN E. SARMIENTO Department of Vertebrate Biology American Museum of Natural History New York City...
There was also an incident this week involving general co-worker contempt for what I saw as a completely reasonable decision, given that there is no shortage of refrigerator space in our office, to bring a jar of mayonnaise to work and then put it on my sandwich at noon rather than putting it on in the morning and letting the sandwich get soggy in my bag. That topic is still too painful for me to write about at length...