Word: shelffuls
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...Americans used to be interested in knowing everything about a foreign cuisine at once: the food of France, or Italian cooking for all occasions. No longer. Authors must now come in closer on highly specialized dishes or on more obscure corners of the world. Herewith a small but significant shelf...
...oversize, easy-to-grab handles, plus pull-down and pullout shelves that bring cabinet contents to countertop height. "That's wonderful," says Sisk. "I'm petite, and I used to wait for a tall neighbor to come over for a drink just to get a vase off the top shelf...
...horror film, were also the time of bomb shelters and "duck and cover" instructions to schoolchildren, who, like Kawamoto in the '40s, were taught to hide under desks in a bombing attack. The combination of fright and absurdity might have been enough to put the Bomb on the shelf for a while...
With detailed genealogies, biographies, photographs and maps, the historian traverses ground that has since been overrun by tyrannies and famine. The arena is variously host to epic, comedy and finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here...
Grumet-Morris, who recorded the best season for a goaltender in Harvard hockey history, adds his Second Team All-American pick to a shelf that already includes the Walter Brown Award, an All-New England MVP distinction, and a Second Team All-ECAC...