Word: omelet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urged to catch up in math and join ice-hockey teams, boys should be encouraged to write poetry and take dance classes without being labeled sissies. Parents can enhance gender-neutral self-esteem by suggesting that a daughter help fix a leaky pipe--or a son whip up an omelet. "A little girl who says she wants to be a doctor gets a lot of support," says Bailey, whose Wellesley Centers are devoting their next gender-equity conference to boys. "But if a boy talks about wanting to be a nurse, the reaction is that it doesn...
Sour grapes? Spilt milk? Some observation about what you have to do to make an omelet? Lunching at Restaurant Daniel, a four-star establishment in Manhattan ("I never cook anymore"), Guarnaschelli dismisses Corn's complaint: "I thought maybe she could deliver a great chapter. It wasn't what I could use. That's all there is to it." What about all the turmoil surrounding the preparation of the new Joy, most of which has been blamed on her? "I'm emotional, but I'm not difficult," she counters. "I'm dramatic, I'm intense, but people like to work with...
...unconsummated union of a male and female. Today's Catholic annulment process is a sham. The permanent canonical severance of a couple previously regarded as formally joined needs to be called something else, like "canonical dissolution" or "Catholic divorce." No one, not even God, has ever unscrambled an omelet. The present-day annulment is comparable to divorcing children from their parents. MICHAEL A. IACONA SR. Littlestown...
While there, they had the choice between purchasing an omelet, a smoothie, falafel or burgers and fries, all of which they could pay for in exchange for the dinner they missed...
When all is said and done, but not yet fully digested, Secondo enters his kitchen, makes an omelet, shares it with Primo and an assistant. All this is done in real time, without change of camera angle or exchange of words. It is spectacularly confident filmmaking, honoring our ability to draw our own conclusions about what we've seen and the medium's rarely employed ability to convey major emotions through minimal means. And it is completely emblematic of--oh, let's just say it--a completely delicious movie...