Word: savoring
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...imported Broadway show tunes); and most of its lyrics were nationalist exhortations to collective endeavor, struggle and sacrifice - amid the ever-present danger of of war with hostile Arab neighbors. Still, teenagers escaped from the folksy drudgery of their local pop scene by dialing up European radio stations to savor tracks off the new Beatles for Sale album and to participate, vicariously, in the first stirrings of a cultural revolution brewing in Europe...
...genre they founded has lived on, and each decade has given it a different period savor. The 1990s produced slacker crack-ups like Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation. Now, in the 2000s, we have Hurry Down Sunshine (Other Press; 234 pages), Michael Greenberg's account of his daughter Sally's psychotic break, which she experienced at the tragically precocious...
...enjoy fast-track dialogue in television shows like Murphy Brown, because a well-written sitcom requires only 22 minutes of your time, not enough to make you weary of the rattling pace. But a movie, running a couple of hours, requires more breathing room - time to savor characters, time to let the knotty situations grow more enticingly tangled, time to enjoy a laugh if any of them are on offer. The constant hammering and yammering of this movie drives you out of involvement with its women. And then there's that perfume girl - so obviously a gold-digger, so entirely...
...navigating the technical challenges presented by the code of points remains the best way to the top of the medal stand. And while it may be too late for most of America's female gymnasts to savor gold, Johnson and Liukin remain at the top of the lineup for the women's individual all-around event on Friday, and will be hoping to stand side-by-side on the podium, celebrating first and second place...
...sample just one of Château Margaux's great vintages - the sweet tannins and voluptuous fruit of a 1990, say, or the big, rich spiciness of a 1983 - is to savor winemaking at its most refined. To take home 18 of them is an oenophile's dream. And here's your chance. Starting with Château Margaux, London merchant the Antique Wine Company is offering limited-edition collections of the finest vintages from each of Bordeaux's eight most illustrious châteaux...