Word: lusciousness
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...supposedly felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies. At times, Gardner's stolid prose style makes one long for Ian Fleming...
...handy with richesses like sweet-sour duck with cherries as she is with simplicities like fruit flans and potato gnocchi (which originated in Provence, not Italy). Her anthology of country stews-meat, fish and game-is thorough, as is her catalogue raisonné of cheeses. Some of the most luscious of all regional dishes are sweet: the fruity pound cake of the Loire, the tangy tartlets of Rouen and the fritters from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines came from Commercy...
...cream is limited. I am one of America's more than 2 million diabetics. The sugar-substitute ice creams come in few flavors and cost as much or more a pint than regular brands do a quart. Why cannot an inventive nation like ours make a luscious-tasting sugar-free ice cream in more flavors and at less cost to the consumer...
...boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...
...majority tells us that no such thing will occur. Instead, Pernod ads and others with luscious blondes will continue to appear on these pages because their offense against women is at this stage subliminal and because The Crimson needs to make money to stay in business...