Word: warm
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...characters spoke, as novelist and semiotics professor Umberto Eco noted, "in two different keys." The "Peanuts" characters conversed in plain language and at the same time questioned the meaning of life itself. "Peanuts" depicted genuine pain and loss but somehow, as the cartoonist Art Spiegelman observed, "still kept everything warm and fuzzy." By fusing adult ideas with a world of small children, Schulz reminded us that although childhood wounds remain fresh, we have the power as adults to heal ourselves with humor. If we can laugh at the daily struggles of a bunch of funny-looking kids and in their...
...case, I am not sure that friendship, a warm-blooded organism, can survive on so much abstraction. That metaphysical dinner was weeks ago. Now it's the season of real friends gathering to warm themselves with the heat of one another's company. We need that when days are shortest and coldest. We need friendship pulsing in our veins when the pipes freeze in the kitchen...
...time when the tag 'singer-songwriter' was about as common as 'lady surgeon,' [the artist's] warm, croaking delivery often vaulted him up the charts...
...ideal Christmas morning begins like this: I sleep late and wake to the smell of fresh cinnamon buns baking in the oven. I crawl out of bed, slip into a warm robe and stroll downstairs to sip hot chocolate by the fire. Nibbling on a roll and chatting with my family, I bask in the glow of Christmas lights reflecting off presents piled high under the tree...
...text you ran under the picture of my Chilly Dog snuggle bed must have been printed by mistake. You wrote about an air-conditioning system to cool dogs left in a hot car. But my invention has the opposite goal: to keep dogs warm. I own dachshunds, and they used to shiver at night from the cold weather. They couldn't keep a blanket on, so I developed the ultimate snuggle bed, which is sort of like a sleeping bag with a built-in pillow and blanket. People who buy these beds say their dogs love them! Readers can find...