Word: morsel
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...pottery. In a leisurely way, yet wasting no time with scene-setting, he lays out his dialogue and his few spare sentences of narration. The characters take shape quickly as the story forms. At the end, amazingly often, what the reader takes away is not a mood, or a morsel of truth, or a flash of humor, but the whole story-characters, moods, truths and lies. This is so not only because the stories could be retold as good anecdotes, but because the author is a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality from...
...anti-destiny," man's only means of asserting himself in a meaningless universe. He equates sacred and profane works of art by arguing that both aim at "defeating the tyranny of Time": though Vermeer "had no intention of imparting to his Maidservant that morsel of eternity which the Egyptian sculptor imparted to his Zoser, he may well have wished his picture of this girl to enter into a world akin to that of the Pharaoh's statue...
California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Have Sword, Will Duel presents a dazzling mixture of nationalities: a visiting Russian, Grand Duke Nicolai Alexandrovitch Danovsky, gets involved with an Irish adventurer named O'Hara, and a Latin morsel known as Conchita Lolita Sarita...
Placed on a plate with a spoon, it looks such a tempting morsel that they won't be able to wait to eat it. However they quickly wait to eat it. However they quickly discover, to their surprise, that it is nothing but an excellent imitation. It's a good joke to play on your unsuspecting guests serving it for desert instead of the real ice cream. Well made and can be used over and over again...