Word: silken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recipe--flaxseed, soy milk, tofu--contain chemical compounds known as phytoestrogens, which are estrogens produced by plants. Forget the fact that tofu doesn't taste particularly good, Shandler breezily advises. "It's like flour. Flour is a useful ingredient. Nobody expects it to taste good." Just throw a little silken tofu into a blender, add a splash of vanilla extract, a sprinkling of cocoa powder, a dollop of maple syrup, and you'll see. "I truly love this food," she insists, and so, apparently, do her husband and kids...
...every aspect of court life. Only the audiences vary. Makeup and masks are only the exterior manifestations of the guile that these lords and ladies use to disguise their intentions. "Dangerous Liaisons," however, contents itself with skimming along the surface of social encounters where poisoned barbs are cushioned in silken words. "Ridicule" actually takes us behind the scenes. Gregoire is a quick thinker, with an aptitude for making perfect verbal ripostes, but he lacks finesse. Luckily, a sympathetic doctor agrees to sponsor him at court, and so Gregoire's education begins. Voltaire is the God of Versailles, and his works...
There's Haley Barbour scripting things. The soothing, silken song he sings: "It seems as clear as heck to me We need a Houstonectomy." Rejecting Mack, the Rust Belt Four, McCain, Dole picked Jack Kemp, a man who shares your pain...
...women's Eight should be No. 1 in Gainesville, Georgia. Canadian heroine Silken Laumann, who won the bronze in Barcelona only weeks after a terrible rowing accident, is back in the single sculls...
...safari housing: On the safari, we lived in a tent. It was supposed to be a tent, but it was a mahogany tent with silken mosquito netting. Like Eliot in tent form...