Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole group seemed to be taking it pretty well, actually. I was growing fond of them. There's a contingent from Tennessee. There's mellow Clara. There's Vinnie, who'll be studying Italian so he can talk to his grandparents. And there's Radi, his roommate from Jordan who already speaks Italian. Chris Lees used to repair computers in California. He gave me his business card. "For you, Josh, it'll be on the house," he said...
Both rice-wine vinegars -- vital to Oriental cuisine -- and dark, mellow sherry vinegars are fast sellers at specialty stores around the country. Even more popular among foodies is Modena's aromatic, sweet-sour balsamic variety. Alas, most of the cheap brands on the U.S. market bear little resemblance to the syrupy real stuff, which costs as much as X.O. Cognac...
JAZZ SAXOPHONISTS can often size one another up by the age of their instruments. An old and weathered sax sounds the way an aged wine tastes: smooth and mellow, but with a bite. Last year's vintage is for the nouveauriche, the amateurs...
...public. After pondering names such as "Hair Club for Women," Ryan christened the group Wild Women and Cinnamon, after a feminist peace group called "Wild Wimmin for Peace" and a song lyric which used the word "cinnamon." Says Ryan, "People don't get the "wild" because we're mellow--Wild Women and Cinnamon on Sedatives would be more appropriate. One of my roommates in protest only calls us Women and Cinnamon. We're like the [Grateful] Dead or the [Rolling] Stones, but our name goes both ways--Wild Women or Women and Cinnamon." She is quick to add, "There...
Crooning the usual mellow melodies--"Redemption Song," by Bob Marley, "Spanish Caravan," by the Doors and "Ziggy Stardust," by David Bowie--many of the participants gathered around guitarists and a flutist for a sing-a-long...