Word: lit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Martin's isn't alone in that dilemma. For years, book publishers have catered to the $250 million African-American market with the aspirational stories of authors like Terry McMillan and Eric Jerome Dickey. But attracted by the gaudy numbers generated by the genre known as street lit, such publishers as Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Random House are hitting the pavement...
...tablescape is everything that is on the table: how the food is arranged, how close it is to us, what the plate looks like. It can also be whether the table is lit by candlelight, spotlight or fluorescent light. The tablescape not only influences how much we enjoy food; it has tremendous impact on how much we eat. We find that people who serve themselves from slightly smaller serving bowls serve themselves a smaller amount. With snacks, they end up taking 50% more if they were served in a large bowl rather than a small bowl. The same thing happens...
...there in his satin robe, flanked by two ‘pretty boys,’ whom he ignored entirely, except for when he reached his hand out to the left (without looking at it) so a cigarette would be lit and, three minutes later, reached his other hand to the right (again still looking straight at me) to receive a small flask," Overholser writes...
...Crimson’s receivers concentrated on blocking and making timely catches.But Lehigh was able to hold Dawson under 100 yards for the first time this season last Saturday, and the Harvard aerial attack shouldered the responsibility of moving the ball downfield.Crimson wide receivers did not disappoint, as they lit up the Mountain Hawks’ secondary to the tune of 304 yards, scoring two touchdowns in the process.Harvard’s receiving corps is led by Mazza, who is ranked fifth in the Ivy League with 212 receiving yards and leads the Crimson with 10 receptions...
Over the past three years, I interviewed 700 families across the U.S., asking them what they'd had to deal with. Extremely few mentioned the kinds of problems diagnosed by supermom lit. Rather, they had old-fashioned problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. The kinds of problems people actually deal with are not covered by anyone but Oprah and Dr. Phil, which certainly explains why they're the cultural phenomena they are. Most families in the U.S. aren't doing too much for their children. They're doing...