Word: spicing
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...love you if you marry me.' The man always has to pay, but with all that pushing away, he persists. It's persuaded me that men want women more than women want men." To Friday, fantasies are not just inner movies that add spice to sex. Their function is to deal with the mix of frustration, love and rage that men feel toward women. Says Friday: "At least for a sexual moment, magic is called in, reality altered, the perceived nature of woman changed and the conflict is healed...
...chowder are delicacies anywhere. The drinks are equally exotic. On Statia, a kind of tea called mauby is made from the bark of a tree; when mixed with rum, they say, it makes "an old man young and a young man younger." Sabans serve a rum-based liqueur called Spice that would sink a buccaneer...
...tried them all. Brut, English Leather ... Old Spice. And somehow the women still turn up their noses. But don't despair. Help...
...conventions: panels, huckster-rooms filled with interstellar trinkets and Federation paraphernalia, speeches by the high priests of Trekdom, trivia quizzes and singalongs and most important, the inevitable all-night parties, frequently featuring "Blog," a rare nectar imported to Holiday Inns and Sheratons across Nielsen-land by the viciously mercantilistic spice barons of Aldebaron IV. And whenever the fans met (for ten solar cycles), they gathered on weekends in huddled masses in dimly-lit hotel corridors. partying, discussing, earnestly analyzing, wearing garish buttons and proclaiming their bizarre beliefs before wearied maids, bellhops and addled television producers. And later they went home...
...mini-Datsun can spoil a child, or that a satellite antenna and a personal blimp are a bit extravagant. But what's a spoiled kid or a few hundred (or thousand or million) dollars when it all leads to more interesting holiday gifts? After all, if variety is the spice of life, unusual gifts are the frankincense and myrrh of the holiday season...