Word: spoons
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...needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...
Over dinner a few days ago, my summer roommate asked, “Has anyone seen the spoon?” Note the singular, “spoon.” Luckily, our schedules were different enough so that no fights broke out over our beloved spoon, but when I wanted ice cream, which required a metal spoon to dig out frozen bits of cookie, and my roommate wanted to eat her soup, we finally admitted that it was time to buy some silverware...
Until our recent trip to Dickson Brothers, where we treated ourselves to re-usable plastic bowls, a spatula and silverware, we had just one metal spoon among our four mouths. We have housing in DeWolfe, considered quite posh by summer subletting standards in Cambridge. And although we have a big, glorious refrigerator capable of storing 5 gallons of milk to my HSA’s one quart, as well as a dishwasher, oven range and trash compactor, fending for my stomach—even with the mechanical niceties of a working kitchen to call my own—has been...
...Yosemite's notorious El Capitan. On ice, where one wrong strike with an ice ax can bring down an avalanche, Erik has learned to listen to the ice as he pings it gently with his ax. If it clinks, he avoids it. If it makes a thunk like a spoon hitting butter, he knows it's solid...
...Yosemite's notorious El Capitan. On ice, where one wrong strike with an ice ax can bring down an avalanche, Erik has learned to listen to the ice as he pings it gently with his ax. If it clinks, he avoids it. If it makes a thunk like a spoon hitting butter, he knows it's solid...