Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuban style of coffee roasted with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10? (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell...
...autumn would End! If the sweet season, The late light in the tall trees would End! If the fragrance, the odor of Fallen apples, dust on the road, Water somewhere near, the scent of Water touching me; if this would end I could endure the absence in the night, The hands beyond the reach of bands, the name Called out and never answered with my name: The image seen but never seen with sight. I could endure this all If autumn ended and the cold light came...
...Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's pictures were more than halfway abstract: the figures were squared off to look like pottery dolls and the colors were arbitrarily rich and sweet...
...nine-man band made sweet music that sounded like two marshmallows meeting headon. Its shuffling, danceable rhythm treacled out of a fair piano, a soggy sax, a toneless trumpet, a cooing clarinet and a bass. The feature acts, a good old square dance and the numbers the boys in the band clowned up in trick hats and phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers...
...other markets. Retailers like the Gauthiers arrive later, and for them business does not get brisk until about 8 o'clock. Thereafter they are seldom without customers, who pinch and punch their fruit and vegetables and ask them to pull open the husks of sweet corn to make sure the kernels are full and firm...