J. F. Powers explored further with "Death of a Favorite," which was published in The New Yorker, in 1950, and later selected by John Updike for The Best American Short Stories of the Century, which is quite a pantheon.
A favorite, which foreshadowed Gorbachev by years, was an attack on the stifling egalitarian work ethic, using entrepreneurial brigades that were rewarded for performance, not for just showing up.
The Favorite (star) button will only appear on photos in your own library, allowing you to mark an individual item as a favorite which, in turn, will automatically populate a new photo album with just your favorite photos.
Golovkin, a baby-faced middleweight, has become a cult favorite, which has landed him an appearance on an Apple Watch commercial and a multi-year endorsement deal with Nike's Jordan Brand.
Oliver Onions' The Beckoning Fair One (1911) is a personal favorite which deserves to be more widely known: it features a struggling writer who rents a mysterious flat and starts to be haunted -- in a strangely sensual way -- by the sound of a woman brushing her hair.
At the Abastos market, she led me through an area the size of a football field that held nothing but bread — including pan de yema (egg-yolk bread), a family favorite, which Abigail, slipping out of her Spanish, refers to as challah.
This is the place to be if you love lamb, an Afghan favorite, which comes in so many variations that the dishes are hard to distinguish from one another — one incorporates okra, another more onions.
One of the new stores featured is the Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn (a HuffPost Books favorite), which gave readers a great opportunity to take a look at its books for the year, showing an impressive overall profit of over $11,000.
Baghdatis, a Cypriot with a most un-tennis-like body — stocky — but with a big lovable grin, was an obvious crowd favorite, which bothered Mirnyi not a jot.
In the US, the long-running BBC series, once a cult fan favorite which rebooted to little fanfare in 2005, now graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly and has midnight premieres in movie theaters.
There were historic paintings everywhere, ancient-looking wooden-shafted clubs, bizarre old putters (whose club heads ranged from elegant ellipses to lumps of lead) and a host of primitive golf balls, including my favorite, which sported a parachute.
