Word: scrumptiously
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...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...
...bigotry and ignorance working against them too. They referred to the local Inuit as skraelings (loosely, wretches) while ignoring the fact that those wretches nimbly harvested calorie-rich seals and whales using their technologically sophisticated kayaks. And amazingly, although the fjords and lakes of Greenland are crammed with scrumptious haddock, cod, trout and char, it never occurred to the Norse to go fishing, even as they starved and froze to death. They apparently considered fish taboo and beneath their dignity...
...Santa, when you are devouring the scrumptious cookies I’m sure Director of Athletics Bob Scalise leaves fireside each Christmas Eve, please remind him that Ivy League titles and 10-0 seasons aren’t delivered by flying reindeer. They’re provided by a coaching staff whose only fixture over a given three-year period is likely its head coach. And any coach who has delivered three conference crowns in eight seasons is certainly worth keeping, even if it involves upping a few of the numbers on his paycheck...