Word: saucering
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...spray invigorates the skin and spirit at the tip of Long Island. Or the clear desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens, "I'm like a noodle...
Perhaps the biggest attention grabber in the Canada pavilion, however, is Hystar, a 16-ft. flying saucer that bears more than a passing resemblance to one of Steven Spielberg's interstellar luxury liners. Filled with helium and propelled by five tiny rotors, Hystar puts on a show in the main hall every 20 minutes, moving, without help of strings or wires, up, down and sideways, as if it had never heard of gravity. The insouciant little saucer has been such a hit--often getting spontaneous applause--that its builders plan to equip it with a TV camera next month...
Penina the gerbil is certainly one party animal, says her owner Gary. One day the sophomore placed a couple of drops of Jack Danielsin her water saucer. "We asked her if she would like a drink and she didn't say no. She gobbled it up and then spun around a bit," he laughs...
...universal indifference" by cultivating his affections, even starting with a dog, Barclay adapts the suggestion by trying to reduce Tucker to the condition of a dog. Tantalizing Tucker with the prospect of being Barclay's literary executor, Barclay forces Tucker at one point to lap wine from a saucer...
...Michael Chow, proprietor of Mr. Chow's Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, the key questions facing the jury were purely factual ones. Was Guide Gault-Millau correct in asserting that the pancakes served with his Peking duck were "the size of a saucer and the thickness of a finger"? Was it true that his "sweet-and-sour pork contained more dough (badly cooked) than meat," as the pugnacious Parisian guide to New York City proclaimed? To prove otherwise, Chow brought his chef into Manhattan federal district court to demonstrate to the jury his technique for making paper-thin pancakes...