After a thorough tasting recently, I concluded that eaux de vie, which are usually distilled from fermented fruit, are particularly apt at this time of year.
"I have become aware of a number of verses in the Koran that I feel are particularly apt at this time, if I may: 'Since good and evil cannot be equal, repel the evil with something that is better.'" // >< -- < --//-->
The latter is a most apt consideration at this time of the centenary of the field of crystallography.
"Stagnant and sluggish are apt descriptions for manufacturing at this time," said Norbert J. Ore, who oversees the monthly survey for the institute, based in Tempe, Ariz.
Nobody knows for sure, but my guess is that we go higher, and I think that because the sentiment is so horrible, the rise this time is apt to last longer and be very ragged, with declines in the middle of the rise, and it'll slowly come back.
Cut to seven years later, when Granada decided -- this time with Apted at the helm -- to revisit these children for a sequel called 7 Plus Seven.
(It feels like I've typed that phrase a dozen times in recent years, but this time, it's especially apt).
This is entirely apt, because time, in all its ornery complexity, fleeting and ponderous, slipping through the fingers even as it weighs upon the soul, is a central theme in Beckett's 1958 one-act.
This is probably an unusual -- but perhaps apt -- time for Tareque Masud's intelligent drama, "The Clay Bird," an offering of the New Directors/New Films series and easily one of the finest pictures of this year or any other.
Either way, this is an apt time to think a few thoughts about what Mandela bequeathed his people, for better and for worse.
