Word: oracularity
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...With fast food, it's all in the condiments," says Michael Whiteman with oracular solemnity. Whiteman and his partner, Joseph Baum, are the New York City restaurant consultants working on San'wiches. "There's nothing unusual about a hamburger," says Whiteman. "It's the trimmings used by McDonald's and Burger King that make it memorable...
...instrument" -- as modern dancers like to call their bodies -- ruthlessly, and he was soon studying with the likes of Graham and Jose Limon. Graham became a powerful influence. Much to Taylor's approval, she called her instrument the "bodaah," and he was transfixed by her witchy pronouncements and "oracular eyes...
Critics carp that Brody can be a joyless nudge. More seriously, they complain that she tends to make oracular pronouncements when scientists are still debating an issue. "If I don't sound positive," responds Brody, "people can readily discount what I say. But I'm ready for change." She used to warn against eating fatty fish. "Now I tell them they can. The evidence has changed. Same goes for olive oil." But most of her colleagues and even doctors heap on only praise. "She has done more than any other journalist to bring accurate information about nutrition and health...
...highlight of the conference, however, was a rare joint appearance by Watson and Crick. Both looked appropriately oracular: Watson with his aureole of thinning hair, Crick with a rim of silver. Still, there were flashes of the brash biochemists who had once electrified the scientific world. Watson displayed the pointed wit that he employed so deftly in his gossipy, irreverent 1968 history, The Double Helix (it began with the line "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood...
...celebrity endorser had seemed snug in his position, it was oracular, orotund Orson Welles, 66, who boasted that Paul Masson Vineyards let nothing go "before its tune." But the winemaker let Welles go, and has now replaced him as spokesman with that quintessential enunciator Sir John Gielgud, 78, whose first two ads put him in an art gallery and amid a forest of pro football players. Gielgud, who has been cashing in just a teensy bit on his posi-Arthur cachet, would seem more at home with a Mouton-Rothschild than a Masson party jug. But the vint ner insists...