Word: relished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck him 'with her, yet he gradually comes to accept and even relish the challenge of caring...
Fiction fans who relish in richness of prose would find Girl in Landscape only bordering on satisfaction. A review in Timeout NY put it best: "Most often, [Girl in Landscape] reads like a children's book for adults," a description hardly convincing for admirers of the silky lushness of, say, the novels of Rushdie or Morrison. Much more than style, however, the ideas expounded in the novel and the way author Jonathan Lethem structures them raise this book to its own, medium-high pedestal. At the most basic level, the novel is a literary reenactment of John Ford...
...entree, but it proved the perfect appetizer to share, offering a sample of every vegetable on the menu. Arranged artfully on the giant platter were mashed spiced yams, mashed new potatoes, light and crispy fried green tomatoes, pencilthin sweet potato fries, black-eyed peas topping cheesy grits with tomato relish, and the inevitable nods to yuppies everywhere: mesclun greens with vinaigrette and portabella mushrooms roasted with goat cheese and walnut stuffing. Gourmandized Southern has never been so tasty, sopped up with the coarse, hot, freshly-baked cornbread muffins. Other appetizers include an elegant, but not especially interesting, mesclun salad...
They say Harvard students relish putting things off to the last minute, but this was ridiculous...
...struck immediately by my own and my fellow classmates' demeanor: our giggling, our initial inability to call "No!" without prodding, our hesitation. Why were we all being such girlie-girls? I was doubly struck at the relish with which we all, once goaded on by the instructors, pummeled and yelled and kicked out at imaginary groins as though we hadn't left a library carrel in weeks and were dying just to make noise and take up space...