The duo adapted a standard experiment: Infants and other primates know that an object will fall if something is not holding it up; they stare for longer than normal at images of a ball or banana floating in midair, for example, suggesting they know that something unusual is going on.
For example, the term "banal" means "boring or everyday," so to help you remember its definition, you might picture a banana peel (because the beginning of "banal" resembles the beginning of "banana") floating in a canal (because "canal" rhymes with "banal").
Powers does his florid best to make the moment feel magical -- Dreamlike bananas floated up to tickle the insouciant moon" -- but his prose-poem riffs never fully take flight, not even when Adie giddily tosses Botticelli's Venus into her jungle.
Here, the edge of the island is sheared into a cliff that falls 30 feet to the water, with banana trees floating below, having fallen over the side.
A banana peel floating in a canal is a vivid enough image to remember, but it also captures an image of something banal, allowing you to associate "banal" with the definition "boring or uninteresting".. Integrate the new words into your environment.
Most desserts are classics that ruled the soda fountains of long ago: root-beer float, banana split, brownie sundae.
Her Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame dessert was a trio - a root beer float, banana royale, and strawbeery shortcake.
The menu is pure soda shop: banana splits ($4.50), floats, shakes, malts and waffles with ice cream, all made with Hershey's ice cream (and all $3.25), plus an array of cakes and pies ($3.50 to $3.95, $1 more for 'a la mode) procured from five or six different bakeries.
