Word: jarringly
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...chose because it sounded more exotic than London, Paris or Madrid. "It is good," he says, "for a writer to go to a place where everything is novel, where you can't even take the butter for granted, where the mayonnaise comes in a tube instead of a jar, where you are made to notice even the trivial things-especially the trivial things...
Still, the sweeteners amount to more than a jar of jelly beans. Some were a shade outrageous. Rostenkowski, who has been saying that the G.O.P. version favors Big Business and wealthy individuals, protected a tax write-off for some 2,500 commodities dealers who straddle the market through offsetting buy and sell orders. Not surprisingly, the commodities market is based in Rostenkowski's home city of Chicago. Republicans offered a special deduction to truckers, who were strong supporters of Reagan's candidacy...
...After the jelly bean jar is stuck in front of Dave for a while, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger usually gets impatient. He reaches in front of me to slide the jar down the table. Defense is getting the lion's share of everything this year...
...jar goes to the President, who gives a virtuoso performance. If he's gesturing with his right hand, he backhands with his left and extracts a full measure of jelly beans. If his right hand is free, he makes a quick dip into the jar without looking - and comes up with a full measure in that hand. Psychological interpretation: a very secure leader who knows exactly what he wants, and gets...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig, says Baldrige, "grasps the jar firmly with both hands, peers with great intensity into its depths and searches until he finds two red jelly beans. These he pops into his mouth - and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion." Concludes Baldrige: "The man just doesn't like the color...