Word: sweets
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...good in my life that it's the price you pay. There's another story in the book, when my mom goes and tries on bathing suits and she gets discouraged because these two little teenage girls are waltzing around in their bikinis next to her. And this very sweet lady helping her with her bathing suit sees that my mother is discouraged, and she takes her by the hand and says, "Oh, honey, don't worry about it. We had our turn." It made my mom feel so much better...
...seniors, we know. If you're not doing TFA or on the receiving end of a super-sweet fellowship, the prospect of gainful employment seems, at this point, to be always receding ahead of you, like a particularly painful mirage...
...American life, with no irony whatsoever: "I remember my father's collection of arrowheads." "I remember loafers with pennies in them." "I remember game rooms in basements." "I remember come-as-you-are parties..." I'll remember that clown dragging the iron, but even now he seems kind of sweet...
...story as old as The Beverly Hillbillies, but instead of the blue-state-red-state cultural differences being played off each other, they are set in counterbalance. In Miley-the-creation and Miley-the-girl, we have someone who's cool but wholesome, sophisticated but innocent, glamorous but sweet. Her appeal crosses cultural lines and, accordingly, elicits different reactions. On Access Hollywood, a bespectacled boy gives her flowers, while a 20-something asks where she wants her first tattoo...
...properly conclude a feast like this you must, as the Parsis say, "mithoo munoo" - make the mouth sweet. Visit Parsi Dairy Farm, tel: (91-22) 2201 3633, for a taste of agarni nu ladvo. This conical dessert is made by simmering pulses and grains in sugary ghee. It is traditionally eaten to celebrate seven months of a pregnancy, but the declining number of Parsi births means that nowadays members of the community simply enjoy the dessert whenever they please. "Parsis will go extinct, but not the Parsi food," says Kohinoor. "Everyone loves the taste...