Word: tumbler
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...filter made from one of his daughter's school stockings. That didn't work. He soon designed a new type of conical filter that wouldn't clog, and figured out how to create flavor beads by making a tiny core and gradually adding material to it in a tumbler. Sucralose sweetener kept sugar levels - high in most flavored milks - at half a teaspoon, or 2 g, per straw. His first big break came when a U.S. marketer saw his patent and asked if he could make a trial run of 60,000 straws to be served with milk...
...Seasons. ( He wanted to play the role in the 1966 movie version, but lost out to Paul Scofield, who died last month.) Having cut his great white teeth on Broadway, Heston was the rare mid-century movie star who returned to the stage. Laurence Olivier directed him in The Tumbler, the year after Ben-Hur. He did Long Day's Journey Into Night with Deborah Kerr and Macbeth with Vanessa Redgrave.In 1999 he and his wife, Lydia Clarke, read the Love Letters play in London...
...version of “Lady and the Tramp” is out on limited release. If you can’t live without the story of a spoiled, aristocratic canine defying her high birth to mingle with a common mutt, then dig out your favorite family heirloom crystal tumbler, have the cook prepare plate of Italian food, and get sloshed with this underdog’s challenge. TAKE A SHOT: 1. During each “Coming Attraction” that makes you realize that Disney is now scraping the bottom of the proverbial creative barrel. 2. When...
...doctors reveling in a place where rules are broken, where physics plays games--Look, my cup is floating. They swam through the Columbia's passageways like happy dolphins, thrilled with their good fortune, doing somersaults. This came naturally to David Brown, who in an earlier life was a tumbler and stilt walker in the circus and rode a 7-ft. unicycle before he settled down to be a flight surgeon and naval aviator. That turned out to be good training: "What I really learned from that," he said once, "is kind of the teamwork and the safety and the staying...
Zalickas may be an unusually gifted writer, but her experiences are startlingly universal. She grew up in Massachusetts, majored in English at Syracuse University, and then moved to New York to work in publishing. Along the way—starting with a tumbler of Southern Comfort at age 14—drinking trailed Zalickas on her path. Alcohol is the lens through which she views her adolescent development. In the book she tries to chart who she has become and why, and mainly, to make sense of all the things that simply don?...