Word: temperedness
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For even the most sweet-tempered soul, August is a test of patience and ingenuity, when office workers lunch by a fountain and hope for a strong wind. Shoppers browse through Chicago's Hammacher Schlemmer, lured by inflatable water shoes (pontoons for the feet), or a solar-powered ventilated golf...
Screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home. In Terence Davies' searing memoir of his working-class family in Liverpool 30 and 40 years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall...
To complete the circle of neglect, Congress failed to monitor the enormous agency closely. For one thing, since hearings drew scant coverage, members of Congress sought public attention elsewhere. For another, the lawful political benefits of the pork barrel may have tempered criticism of HUD. Former Senator William Proxmire, who...
Rumors that V.S. Naipaul has mellowed are somewhat exaggerated. His testiness seems for the moment to be tempered by weariness. "The mind fills up with so many images," he says, and one is suddenly aware how many of our images of the Third World come from his tightly woven books...
If physical weakness has not prevented women from becoming bona fide chefs, what about their alleged lack of creativity? Judging by the menus of prominent women chefs around the U.S., pure tradition has gone the way of hand-rolled dough. For though most draw upon certain ethnic and regional influences...