Word: perfective
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...comfortably accommodate all three of us and afford privacy," he says, "but also be in a location that would please my mother-in-law, who wanted to be near retailers, restaurants and church, and Maureen and me, who like to hike, mountain-bike and sail." Sperl-Bell found the perfect three-bedroom ranch in Lewes, Del. Says Dailey: "Her specialty made the process go very smoothly...
...through watching the film, I remembered that nothing in the calculated world of Hollywood (or, for that matter, in the quirky land of independent film) is random. Aside from the darling Olive (Abigail Breslin), Frank is really the heart of this sweet film, and it turns out to be perfectly fitting that he has devoted his heretofore empty life to Marcel Proust. Frank's associations with Proust are only mentioned here and there (he likes to remind the family that he is a renowned Proust scholar while he's helping them push their disabled VW bus), but Proust is implicit...
...form of dessert wine, this one a 2002 from Château Memoires Cadillac in Sauternes, France. Imagine a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice laced with a sweet fragrance and no bitterness, and the flavor of this magnificent wine comes into focus. It had a perfect sugar/acid balance, an effervescent aroma of orange peel, and a slight cedar backbone...
...allowed to bathe. She also bore witness to the curious behavior coming from her captors: they watched Tom and Jerry cartoons when the television set wasn't tuned to the Koran channel; one guard insisted she interview him again and again, forcing her to copy down every word in perfect detail. Another, whom she describes as one of the better-educated guards, spent his time reading from the book How to Win Friends and Influence People. The Revenge Brigade neglected, however, to consider the possible consequences of her fastidious attention to the details of her captivity...
...family in the country: my husband, stepson and children. No, I had not volunteered on a kibbutz. And so on. When finally the time of my flight's departure passed, I leaned forward and said to the agent: "Listen, I'm not Jewish." "Well, nobody's perfect," he said, and put me on the next flight...