Word: toasts
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...fire alarm at the control center can mean burning toast, an overheated washer or dryer or a closed flue in a student fireplace...
...roundly damned by others, especially English ones, who fixated on Said's suggestion that an awareness of Caribbean slavery ran under the ironic tranquillity of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. In England you can dump on God, Churchill or Prince Charles, but touch Jane Austen and you're toast...
While sitting at the Cabot Senior Dinner in early May, however, an inspiration came to Levy. He borrowed a ring from a friend stood up and proposed to Stossel in a toast, much to the amusement of the others at the dinner. Although Stossel was completely taken aback; he says, she accepted the proposal...
...raise a tender toast to Orlando: a sensation at film festivals, a hit in Britain, and, once it opens in the U.S. next week, a bracing corrective to the cinema's annual testosterone overdose. Freely and fondly adapting Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, English filmmaker Sally Potter brings to life a buoyant fantasy world. She imparts a brisk, lush post-modernism to a fable that scans four centuries. But Potter's real triumph is in her pert dressing of an immodest proposal. To be fully human, Orlando says, is to go civilization one better: to be man, then woman, then...
That's the first and last romantic view of Charlie Kate, a blunt and righteous woman who eats garlic on toast for breakfast, smells of mothballs and ties her "resolute shoes" with 30-year-old laces soaked every Sunday in linseed oil ("My shoestrings," she says, "have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well...