Word: macaroon
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...endlessly (and inexcusably) self-indulgent exercise. If I’m not miserable, how will I know that I’m growing as a person? Isn’t there something terribly decadent and ironic about my snacking on fresh-picked organic cherries and a Parisian chocolate macaroon when I receive an email news update about poor children in South Africa from a missionary friend? She writes over a shaky Internet connection, “I love working with the AIDS orphans, but it's sad. One group of kids has no toys and one group is living...
...persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...
Peter Ginna's appearance as an eccentric, macaroon-eating detective Julian Christoforou in Eye immediately commands attention. He slinks around the stage, shoes untied, hair greasy and unkempt, slurping yogurt. His initial energy never wanes, and his loony, yet contemplative characterization provides the best humor of the evening...
...veranda. "Ego gratification and upward mobility, America's gifts to Micronesia, have changed the Pacific of Maugham and Robert Louis Stevenson," says DeVoss. "A $500,000 bridge is planned to link two outer Samoan islands I once swam between four years ago. Still, no change can dull the macaroon scent of drying copra or the taste of raw tuna...
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) includes Jose Ferrer in a captivatingly romantic performance, perfectly suited to Edmond Rostand's lightweight romantic play. Eating half a macaroon, playing with his swords, swaggering about town, Ferrer is always as flamboyant as the part demands. Michael Gordon's direction is nothing special, and the rest of the cast is mediocre in this one-man show...