Word: sweets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blond hair graying with wit." Dressed to the nines, Manet was celebrated as a dandy in that city of dandies, Paris. To read his friends and admirers, you would suppose that he never uttered a pompous word. His sense of measure, corrected by self-doubt, found expression in a sweet offhandedness. "Conciseness in art is a necessity and a grace," he told a younger painter "Cultivate your memory; for nature will never give you more than information. . . No set pieces! Please, no set pieces...
...Sometimes I feel I am a cannibal galaxy unto myself," says Cynthia Ozick, in a sweet, girlish voice. She is sipping tea on the back porch of the rambling, old-fashioned house in New Rochelle, N.Y., she shares with her husband, Attorney Bernard Hallote, and her teen-age daughter Rachel. Ozick was up most of the previous night writing, engaged in what she describes as "the fight between self and self." She explains: "Ancestrally, I stem from the Mitnagged [literally opponent] tradition, which is superrational and superskeptical. That's the part of me that writes the essays...
...Sweet-toothed but calorie-conscious Americans constitute a mammoth market for soft drinks, but there have been problems among the profits. Cyclamates and saccharin, artificial sweeteners used in soft drinks during the past generation, were thought to cause cancer, at least in laboratory animals. Cyclamates were generally banned in 1970, but Congress saved saccharin by requiring a warning label on drinks that contain...
Aspartame, 200 times as sweet as sugar, has had a bitter journey since being accidentally discovered in 1965 by a Searle scientist researching an ulcer drug. Aspartame-sweetened Diet Rite and diet Coke have already been sold in Canada, and diet Coke has also quenched thirsts in Ireland and Scandinavia, but the U.S. introduction had been held up by the FDA, which was wary after its approval years earlier of cyclamates and saccharin. Aspartame won FDA acceptance in 1974, only to be pulled back after some scientists voiced concern that the substance might cause brain damage...
...whole, this was not the best idea Bill Miner ever had. He may have been the first man ever to hold up a train in Canada, and to do it in an incongruously sweet manner. According to the film, Miner liked opera, was the tolerant and understanding lover of an abrasive early feminist-photographer and never hurt anyone in the course of his depredation. On the other hand, his takings were minuscule, his life as a fugitive mostly hard. And he managed to rile the lawmen of two countries, who quickly truncated his second career...