Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Bowers can savor the greatest victory of his career this winter, the biggest race of his life awaits in the spring...
...historic wreck of a French ship and the religious experiences of an American astronaut. The localized pleasures in each chapter -- Barnes is both erudite and witty -- are somewhat diminished by the suspicion that the end design will amount to no more than academic playfulness. There is much to savor in this book and a little to deplore, including the author's determination to indulge himself instead of his readers...
Think of time as a small stream scattered with flowers and flowing relentlessly past. Pick up a petal. Examine it, savor it, press it away between the pages of private memory. That's photography. Its birth was announced in 1839, when the French Academy made public Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's new process for fixing images on a metal plate and, a few months later, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot broke the news of his own separate process. Since then, photography has been the best way of making time stand still...
Michael's Pub is packed. The green-and-white-checked tablecloths are jammed so close together that the waiters can hardly squeeze between, and patrons find themselves knocking knees with their dinner companions. No matter. They have come from around the world -- Japan, Italy, France, Scandinavia, South America -- to savor this moment. The random babel of a hundred conversations suddenly turns into an excited murmur as a sandy-haired man in an open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections...
...1970s because I grew bored with ending too many social evenings lying on somebody's living- room rug, staring at the ceiling and saying, "Oh, wow!" This renunciation was not a wrenching moral decision, but rather an aesthetic rite of passage as my palate began to savor California Chardonnay with the avidity I once reserved for Acapulco Gold. Yet as an aging baby boomer, my attitudes remain emblematic of that high-times generation that once freely used soft drugs and still feels more nostalgic than repentant about the experience...