Word: scrumptious
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...Galaxy Bar, where you can watch a glorious Greek sunset. Move on to the Panathinaia open-air cinema to catch a vintage 1940s film and smell the jasmine flowers that adorn the cement wall. Then, take to the balcony of the Attikos restaurant for a great view and a scrumptious sofrito veal meal. Head for the trendy Gazi clubbing district for a final round of drinks and some late-night flirting and dancing. Should Tyche, goddess of Fortune, hitch you up with a new acquaintance, head up to Kaisariani hill where you can lie under the pine trees...
...have alluded to earlier, these worst meals often come after HUDS makes some special effort. Whether for a parents weekend, a faculty dinner, or a themed meal, these days with particularly scrumptious fare usually mean bad food for the next few days. And I have pseudo-scientific proof: on Monday and Tuesday immediately following Junior Parents Weekend, the grille, pasta station, and salad bar in my house were unusually packed, and it seemed everyone in the servery was complaining about the quality of the food...
...AARONS For decades Aarons was a society photographer for magazines like LIFE, Holiday and Town & Country. He made the jet set look fetching wherever it landed, from Palm Springs to Acapulco. (That's French soprano Lily Pons, above, at Cap Ferrat, France.) Aarons didn't mean to satirize those scrumptious creatures, their opulence or their strangely bewitching narcissism. All the same, it's hard to turn the pages of this book, brimming with rich folk in full regalia--with their silky red slip-ons, their bikinis and their short shorts--and not laugh out loud...
...that is skin deep. Steel and/ or her editors are adept at turning banalities into pleasantries and serious problems like birth defects and murder into inconveniences. The obsession with good looks is total. Scarcely a page goes by without a reminder that the heroes are handsome and the heroines scrumptious. The effect is to raise physical perfection to a spiritual value. In the glitzy world of Secrets, the body is the condominium of the soul...
...most popular table may have been one featuring nutrition advice and a scrumptious assortment of stress-reducing foods such as strawberries, raisin bread, dried fruit, and nuts...