Word: sweets
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...ends with a list of the 100 best classical recordings of all time, richly annotated with backstage gossip--and the 20 worst. When Lebrecht takes apart Andrea Bocelli's recording of Verdi's Requiem, you don't know who to feel sorrier for, Bocelli or Verdi, whose work the sweet-voiced but technically underpowered pop star "vocally murdered...
That's so sweet and kind and nice of him to write in and ask. Absolutely, I think it would be fun to come and visit. My job is to entertain, and I'd like to bring some relief in any way that I could...
...Over the next week, Bishaq demanded to be fed four times a day - a mini breakfast of tea and pastries, then a bigger, meaty breakfast at 10 a.m., meat for lunch, meat for dinner, and several other breaks for sweet black tea. The fact that we were in an area where people routinely starved did nothing to stem his appetites. If, as happened on occasion, I forced Bishaq to miss a meal, he would complain constantly. "I feel faint, I feel weak," he'd say, holding up a frail hand. "It's not right. It's not good...
...Fair enough, Flannery. But for my (tournament pool) money, those Sweet Sixteen coaches should be leaning left every time...
...Edward's new benefactor is Peg Boggs, sweet-souled and steel-willed, who somehow convinces her family to accept and house this odd fellow with digital utensils. Peg's neighbors, naturally skeptical of having a monster next door, soon realize that Edward's handicap is also an asset: his scissorhands can sculpt trees into topiary, reshape poodles into dog-show winners and fashion chic hairdos for the ladies. One woman in particular, the vampish Joyce, gets kinda kinky over this man in black with the super-long fingernails, and has a vigorous erotic go at Edward. But his devotion...