Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flirted, in a provocatively meanspirited way, with the public aspects of his personality. Deconstructing Harry focused on Woody the selfish lover, Celebrity on Woody the capricious star. The new one has reverbs of Woody's Monday-night gigs in a classical jazz ensemble. Sweet and Lowdown is about one sour fellow, but it's another character who gives this minor movie a surprising lilt and afterglow...
...notably the 1949 classic The Third Man. But with Affair, many of the problems can be traced back to the source material. Few contest Greene's virtuosity as a prose stylist, but there's a reason you probably haven't read The End of the Affair. It's a sour, neurotic little novel, and in many ways uniquely ill-suited to film adaptation...
...food that induces tears can also be helpful. Super-sour lemon candies pucker cheeks and make eyes round. Powdered seeds of rare, blistering Thai peppers can easily be concealed as a light red dust on the end of a pencil. An innocent chewing of the eraser will give the tongue a burning wake-up jolt that should last a good 15 minutes...
...drove their Cambridge counterparts around New Haven, showing off objects of interest in town. The game started at 2:30 p.m. (this year's game starts at 12:30) and was played at a place known as Hamilton Park. The price of admission was 50 cents. On a sour note, seven Harvard students were arrested on Saturday night in the city for creating disturbances by hooting and singing in the public streets. They would be fined $5.29 a piece...
WHEN YOU'RE OLDER With age comes wisdom, maturity...and a taste for spinach. A study of more than 300 women ages 21 to 84 found that sensitivity to the bitterness in such vegetables as broccoli and spinach wanes with age. The older women preferred sour fruits such as grapefruit and lemons and bitter beverages such as coffee and tea more often than their younger counterparts. So don't worry if your kids don't like broccoli. They probably will, eventually...