Word: frenched
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Stopped by the perfume counter lately? Better set aside more than your lunch hour if you do. Led by the great French houses--Guerlain, Chanel, Christian Dior and Lancome--the perfume industry has become a hothouse of innovation, churning out literally hundreds of new fragrances, some of them designed to blossom and fade in the marketplace in about the same time span as the flowers that provide their essence. Fragrance, says perfume expert Michael Edwards, has become a "fashion accessory. Companies are mining and reinventing their heritage...
...appreciate a culinary evaluation of food where one argues that a particular item just tastes bad, pure and simple. But the crux of my opponents' arguments was often that British food is bad because it involves eating the kidneys and other internal organs. By that token, strike out French food as being a gastronomic delight. Foie gras? Shock, horror...
...match was played on Senior Night at Columbia Union, and was the final hurrah for Pioneer seniors Nathan French and Jeff Badillo. Despite the ceremony, Harvard saw to it that the hurrah was more a whimper than a roar...
Some of you Americans, like me, may have countered such angry Europeans with the claim that our parents/grandparents/Ronald Reagan saved Europe from Nazis/Communists/boy bands. This tactic is especially useful against the French, whose military motto before 1940 was, "The best defense is 237 official varieties of cheese." But here in Spain the fascists ruled until 1975 and 'N Sync is huge, so they pretty much owe us nothing. No matter--after a few days of genuine concern, I've now entered the dreaded Stage Three...
...point the poet gives his blessing: "There was no treachery if he turned his back/on the sun that plunges fissures in the fronds/of the feathery immortelles, on a dirt track/with a horse cart for an equestrian bronze." But later Walcott wonders whether Pissarro's Impressionist renderings of French scenery did not involve treachery after all: "Are all the paintings then falsifications/of his real origins, was his island betrayed?/Instead of linden walks and railway stations,/ our palms and windmills? Think what he would have made/(but how could he, what color was his Muse,/and what was there to paint...