Word: syrup
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...enough to buy the 50th anniversary issue discovered as they turned its elegant, ad-riddled pages. The New Yorker has become--maybe it's always been-boring. The "Talk of the Town" section with its plural-voiced inanities, the epic profiles of dull people, the humor pieces heavier with syrup than satire--this is what fills The New Yorker. Get rid of the cartoons--the work of Lorenz, Geo. Price, Charles Addams--and there is not much left. An occasional piece by Woody Allen. Richard Goodwin's political writing. Pauline Kael. What else...
Ford's willingness to come to the people palms up is admirable. Still, he is in no position to offer soothing syrup. The spreading economic distress now reaches into every home daily, in living color, in living reality, or both. He cannot blink the fact that foreigners now hold significant strings, pulling on the nation's destiny...
...graduate students looked at each other and smiled, and suddenly they didn't seem as hurried. Blood was just as mundane as the other samples Horowitz had analyzed that morning--Gainesburger, vitamins, chicken bullion and maple syrup. But they had remembered how much they liked Horowitz and his bursts of enthusiasm that sometimes went beyond "real physics," and they were pleased that his microscope was working so well...
...drinks range from exotic but simple syrup and soda combinations, like grenadine and tamarindo, to elaborate specialties dripping with whipped cream. Hot drinks include mint chocolate (also served cold) and Russky chai with strawberry jelly as a sweetner. And for those with simpler tastes a large glass of "George's water" is offered free of charge...
...thus the disillusionment, the rude awakening, the shaking shoulders. The candy companies have succumbed to the scandals of modern-day industry. And you know it takes milk to make milk chocolate--or at least powdered something. And corn syrup is surely made out of something surplus sold to the other side...