Word: peaching
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Spring has come to Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. The crape myrtles are in bloom, and the peach-toned brick buildings glow creamily in the afternoon sun. The cheery campus hardly recalls the school's old self-description as the "World's Most Unusual University." Not, at least, until one wanders by the bookstore and sees material on Catholicism under the heading "Cults." Or converses with an earnest young music major near an administrative building. "The Pope isn't necessarily the Antichrist," he explains, parsing a famous (and never retracted) statement by his school's founder...
...chest was an embarrassment to the profession. Yes, it was large. Yes, all 17,963 men in the audience didn't seem to notice anything else. But it looked like a color chart for cheap housepaint! Her face looked like a Cover-girl light beige, her neck a "Perfectly Peach," her lower neck a "Truly Tan," her clavicle area a "Trendy Toupe," the first three inches of her chest a "Light Chocolate Brown" and the next five inches were decidedly an "Earthy Ebony." I'm all for creativity and free expression, but really, there must be some sort of limit...
...wouldn't be willing to say for certain, though, that the sudden prominence of so many peach-fuzz millionaires has not raised the angst quotient among the parents of my younger friends. Twenty years ago, baby boomers were written about as if every one of them had as a life goal making enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard...
Ambrosia, the self-described "SoHo meets Back-Bay eatery" was there to advertise their new "tea sorbets." At a pricey $3 per pint, most customers tasted the sorbets before buying. Flavored in Chocolate Nutmeg, Lavender Peach and Lemon Lime Leaf, Ambrosia's new products were described by taste-testers as "exotic" and "unconventional...
Ambrosia, the self-described "SoHo meets Back-Bay eatery" was there to advertise their new "tea sorbets." At a pricey $3 per pint, most customers tasted the sorbets before buying. Flavored in Chocolate Nutmeg, Lavender Peach and Lemon Lime Leaf, Ambrosia's new products were described by taste-testers as "exotic" and "unconventional...