Word: stirrer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jammed into a corporate culture, however, the stirrer lost its sting. In May last year, resigned to Mambo's dwindling sales and street cred, Gazal announced it was offloading the brand, which a private consortium snapped up in January for about a third of what Gazal had paid for it eight years before. The new owners' plan is to revert to the original Mambo recipe of humor, social commentary and art, while stirring in a fistful of contemporary spices. Co-owner Angus Kingsmill told TIME: "We believe Mambo has massive global potential. It would take almost a perfect storm...
...always try not to be ‘against things,’" he says while sipping chai, methodically breaking his tea stirrer into smaller and smaller pieces. "We always try to have a vision for what we’re for." Recently, that vision was last fall’s "Justice for Janitors" campaign which successfully fought for higher wages for custodial staff; a dining hall workers support campaign that garnered 1,300 responses this spring; and the recently won fight to get Saintely Paul, a janitor who had been fired after allegedly fainting at work, reinstated...
Aisha I. Muharrar: A fictional cocktail stirrer from a fake encounter...
...pieces"--three-inch lengths of clothesline, fluffed a bit at the edges and attached to the wall with three nails--seemed less like works than offhand gestures, the merest residues of an intuition. Years later, Tuttle described another of them as "some paint on the end of a coffee stirrer, placed on a 40-foot wall...
...always been a lair and a stirrer. You can see it in the letters he wrote to his school newspaper, urging people to "have a go." It's a "go hard or go home" ethos that he seems to retain. He's employed an inventive cheekiness working on election campaigns in his youth. Out on the town, he can be a show-off and a charmer. At an Indian restaurant one evening a decade ago, he launched into a funny and impromptu toast for a stranger celebrating his birthday at another table. But he also has a darker, brooding - some...