Word: pour
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...Pour a liquid out of the container and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space it may surprise you where they go, the shape they'll take. Surprise is the one thing you can't have planned for. The word is borrowed from French, literally to take over. It suggests an ambush, a conquering, even a trap...
...This 1 1/2-1-1/2 ratio is age-old and not to be messed with. And this ratio is what I told Cory I wanted. He looked at me in worried confusion, as though I'd asked him to pour tequila directly into my mouth. I imagined what he was thinking: A margarita like that would be far more costly than the ones Applebee's serves, since a pure one contains only liquor and juice, not shelf...
...almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you." Like a method actor, Bennett goes over lyrics for days--even for songs he has sung forever--repeating them until they're second nature. When the time comes to record, the words pour out with different emphases on each take. (On Cold, Cold Heart, the shift from a brisk apart to a drawn-out uhhhh-part tips the mood from disdain to misery.) The advantage is that his performances are spontaneous and deeply felt; the disadvantage is that each one exhausts him. So Bennett...
...jobs, even love and affection are in finite supply," says psychologist Mark Feinberg of Penn State. Parents, despite themselves, are programmed to notice the child who seems most worthy of the investment. While millenniums of socialization have helped us resist and even reverse this impulse, and we often pour much of a family's wealth and energy into the care of the disabled or difficult child, our primal programming still draws us to the pretty, gifted ones...
...your mother tells you your hair is too long or your skirt is too short or your kids are slobs, you get into it. You get riled. You might even call her a bitch. When the vein throbs in my neck about something my mother does or says, I pour myself a little glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, and I sit down, and I feel very blessed that I have...