Word: lusciousness
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...that changed her life. It was in 1947 when she was walking to work in Kenton, Ohio, a new graduate of a Lima, Ohio, beauty school. She was munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought the equipment to open her own salon, the Starlight Beauty Shoppe...
...orchestra of the beginning of a very exciting and productive period." Others feel that Mehta is an antidote to Boulez's astringency, and that he will bring back some of the fire of the Bernstein days. "Boulez was not trying to reach the audience with spontaneous feeling, or luscious phrasing," says Violinist Oscar Ravina. "We'll be coming closer to that kind of thing with Mehta...
...Hermie's primary function is to keep asking MacArthur: "Are you sure you want to do that?" When MacArthur gets carried away with visions of an electric soil floor capable of growing 25 Ibs. per sq. ft. of the ripest, reddest, most luscious tomatoes, or the old red barn complete with a nature-food restaurant and live music. Hermie clamps down hard on reality and plays down-Maine Sancho Panza to MacArthur's Don Quixote. Then MacArthur will begin to talk about solid things-like the twelve-by-twelve beams in the old red barn, all meticulously mortised...
...Freedom Trail into the North End. Once there, start yelling. "Anthony, Anthony." Ask one of the hundreds of kids that come running up to you for directions to the Etna Pastry Shop at 7 Prince St. When you reach Etna's, ask for a half dozen cannoli (a luscious, cream-filled Italian pastry), and then head for one of the many fine restaurants in the North End to get some spaghetti, ravioli, veal cacciatore or whatever you want. (I recommend Felicia...
...milk ads, in Mademoiselle magazine and Western supermarkets, feature a luscious young woman in sportswear, with copy touting both "the milk-white look" in fashion and the virtues of drinking cow juice. Why would that seem unwholesome? Well, to begin with, complains a collection of California and national consumer, women's and black groups, the ads present women as sex objects. Worse, as racist sex objects. In the view of the protesters, the ads imply that only white women are desirable. Says Consumers Union Lawyer Luana Martilla: "The implicit message is that milk-white skin equates with health, beauty...