Word: sourly
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...popular notion of V.S. Naipaul is of a remote and forbidding figure, part Yoda, part Brahmin, author of sour essays and dense novels, whose favorite riposte is "I told you so." But this detachment is recent, an effect of various elevations: the knighthood in 1990, the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. The truth is that he has spent much of his life enmeshed in current events, making a living as a freelancer and giving permanent form to subjects such as teacup tempests in Anguilla and Grenada. It's hard these days to imagine Naipaul following the Norman-Mailer...
...politics, Socialist Party leader François Hollande has led the search for lessons amid the ruins of the election. During their summer congress in La Rochelle, Socialist leaders issued a mea culpa, resisting efforts by some officials to lay all the blame on Jospin. Party members gave a sour reception to former cabinet member Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, whose recent book My Own Inventory not only found Jospin's government too market-smitten and his election campaign muddled, but also denigrated him as "not quite having what it takes to be President...
...Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...
...well as milk boxes, which Starbucks carries. But even as its volume grows and production costs fall, Horizon won't be cutting prices. "Our data suggest a consumer tolerance for price premiums," says CEO Chuck Marcy. His pitch to supermarkets: "Take out your third- or fourth-selling brand of sour cream or cottage cheese, sell our product and make 30% to 40% more on the margins. That resonates." Horizon's stock is also resonating. Since January 2001, its share price has more than doubled...
...going for that melt-your-mouth taste. Hailing mostly from Mexico, these spicy treats contain sugar, of course, countered by salt, chili, pepper or tamarind. Thank the nation's growing Hispanic population for the intro. Now these sweets are being munched by the same kids who pucker up for sour candies. Says Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association: "Children are the innovators here. They like intense, unusual flavors--anything parents don't like." Chili-flavored M&M's, anyone...