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...play "20 Rhetorical Questions." Is "Believe" the best dance record of the year, or the one most people have heard of? Is Eminem a better rapper than the Roots? Is Sheryl Crow's "Sweet Child O' Mine" the best female rock vocal, or just Ms. Crow butchering one of my favorite songs? Oh well. Condolences are in order: to missed nominees (too many to name), to undeserving losers (Macy Gray, Diana Krall, Masters at Work) and to deserving winners (Tony Bennett, Chris Rock) for having to share the podium. Want an award that means something? Ladies and gentlemen, I present...
...Like veterans of a long war, we accumulated stories. My grandmother once collected several hundred dollars when she was misheard at the ticket window and given a trifecta she hadn't asked for, but which hit anyway. The entire Habib family got rich when an exacta combining Sweet Charlie (my father's nickname) and Texas Gentleman (my uncle then lived in Houston) defied long odds. I once made the mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention...
...Pequots that were handed over to the Mohegans in the deal never quite gave up their old identity, and gradually they recreated the tribe. Three hundred and fifty years later, revenge is sweet: Foxwoods pulls rank on upstart Mohegan Sun. Entering a new era in the tribe's saga, the descendants of the last of the Pequots have resurrected the tribe once more. But Trump's question remains: instead of the continuation of a tradition, is the tribe's latest, capitalist recreation just an embarrassing parody--even an exploitation--of its own past...
...lovelies who showed up--who after all got a national TV debut with only a 2% chance of having to marry some desperate Croesus--then to every other woman who chooses a mate. (Not to mention men: try pitching a special called Who Wants to Marry a Sweet Guy with a Decent Job?) And it was genius: an irresistible tour of our baser natures that left us dying for the sequel...
DIED. KARSTEN SOLHEIM, 88, golf-club king who brought heel-toe balance to his popular ping putters and revolutionary perimeter weighting to his irons, which increased the sweet spot and allowed more room for error; in Phoenix, Ariz. An engineer, Solheim played his first golf game at age 42 and began tinkering with club designs to improve his handicap...