Word: sake
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...every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...
Extremities numbed, uncorking the weakest throw shivers ligaments from the forearm to the elbow, creaks the joints, and beckons the piercing winds—in all, a solemn sacrifice of “enjoyment” for the sobering sake of arm upkeep...
...appetite for an unconditional Korean reunification?on the North's terms. For nearly six decades, North Korean doctrine has maintained that the South Korean political system is riddled with rot, tottering under its own contradictions and ready for a fall. That propaganda sounds uncomfortably plausible today. For their own sake?and the world's?South Koreans must prove Kim Jong Il wrong. It is still their republic?if they can keep...
LIFESTYLE: "Better" clothing lines; cold sake; the charmed life...
Many people know sake as a hot, often medicinal drink served at Japanese restaurants. But the rice wine is breaking out of its place in the U.S. as a mere sushi sidekick. More refined artisanal and premium sakes, served chilled, have been turning up on the wine lists of top non-Asian restaurants. In New York City the wine list at the posh French-inspired Chanterelle features a wide variety of sakes. In San Francisco, sake is paired with the smoked meats at Memphis Minnie's Barbecue and is sold at a sake-only retail store, True Sake, which stocks...