Word: sours
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...practice, however, the idea went sour. The convents-principally in Italy, Germany, France and Great Britain-did not actually "buy" the girls but did pay their expenses, often a flat fee of between $600 and $800 to cover transportation and warm clothing. The girls were supposed to be 18, have their high school diplomas (not difficult in Kerala, where education is free), and be trained in the language of their new country. In fact, many of the estimated 1,500 recruits were often younger (some were 15), did not have diplomas and spoke little more than Malayalam, the language...
...drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics-can't be all bad. His pub, like many in England, has a legendary ghost, a 17th century scholar and necromancer who conjured a leafy monster to life in the backyard for purposes of terror and mayhem. Naturally...
Both the return of the Popes to Rome and the rise of a burgher class began to turn the courteous arrangement sour. By the mid-15th century, bourgeois resentment had determined that the Pope's Jews could not expand beyond their one-street ghetto. The only place to go was up so they built some of Western Europe's earliest residential skyscrapers, houses ten to eleven stories high. To enforce humility, the town limited the number of pearls a Jewish woman might wear for her wedding. The serving of sugar-coated almonds, a local delicacy cherished...
...Babel, a cultural carpetbagger who hawks the flotsam and jetsam of at least five civilizations and three continents, with odd lots of Latin, Shakespeare and the Bible thrown in. His peculiar comic note derives not only from this exotic mixture, but also from his sweet-tempered narrative of sour experiences. The punning jumble that results might be called a cracked hymn to the Joyce and sorrows of life...
...says that it is "an adult fairy tale'' about a man who lives in the Astrodome and learns to fly. "It's about insanity. It's about cruelty; but the main physical substance is bird s..t." And the droppings (made by prop men from sour cream, mustard and paint) are as plentiful as the blood...