Word: wintered
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...goddess, all lip gloss, tight high-waisted pants and fluffy hair. An older, married handyman named Connell (Ryan Reynolds) flirts with every female employee, including the smart, sullen one James likes, Em (Twilight's Kristen Stewart, whose grins are seldom but feel like sunshine in an Alaskan winter). Connell is James' polar opposite, a heel who relishes being a big fish in a small pond. When he first walks through the theme park, Mottola shifts into slow motion, the better to capture Connell's easy sexuality. "This is the way I roll," Connell seems to be saying, but there...
...Yang You know the story of the ant and the grasshopper? The ant is disciplined, the grasshopper parties as if the good times will last forever - and then winter descends. Americans are, bless us, energetic grasshoppers as well as energetic ants, a sui generis crossbreed, which is why we've been so successful as a nation. Our moxie comes in two basic types. We possess the Yankee virtues embodied by the founders: sobriety, hard work, practical ingenuity, common sense, fair play. And then there's our wilder, faster and looser side, that packet of attributes that makes us American instead...
...Berkeley, you're lucky to have a huge variety of seasonal food year-round. But elsewhere, isn't it pretty hard to say to people, 'No more oranges in the winter time and no more bananas ever...
...Chez Panisse, yes, we can have salad all year long. But we also have dried beans, winter squashes, root vegetables from the root cellar, turnips and all the heritage colors of carrots. We can our tomatoes and we use huckleberry syrup that we've made in the summer. We just think about food differently. And we have the wealth of knowledge of how to do this from the cuisines around the world. I look along my latitude and I can find people in other countries who are so imaginative with the way they eat in the cold months...
...Would Have Liked It. While we're talking Texas, the swanky Joule Hotel in Dallas has a special weekend rate good for those who want to take advantage of the rooftop pool, or dance off the winter blues at the hotel's new nightclub, PM. Stay a Friday and Saturday for just $169 per night. Book by March 31 for stays through Sept. 7. 1530 Main Street, Dallas...