Familiar dishes are given clever, pungent twists: smoked bamboo shoots in crisp, airy potsticker dumplings; red-braised pork given woody depth by tea tree mushrooms.
Overheard on the fringe of Gramercy Park, smartly costumed mother to teen-age daughter: "You must understand, dear, that we're not the sort of people who give clever names to cats".
By Dorothy Parker and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, January 12 , 1963P. 24 Overheard on the fringe of Gramercy Park, smartly costumed mother to teen-age daughter: "You must understand, dear, that we're not the sort of people who give clever names to cats".
Many people don't distinguish between snacks and treats, a difference that's especially easy to ignore given clever snack food marketing.
Again Messi gave the clever ball.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once gave a clever name to the process by which a culture, little by little, learns to tolerate more and more socially destructive behavior.
Starting in the anti-elitist 1960s it took two decades to get rid of a selective secondary system which, despite its faults, gave poor, clever children a real chance.
After Friday's short program, Weir was asked a clever question and gave an equally clever reply, almost all of the words being titles of songs by Lady Gaga.
And that makes it all the more disappointing that the creators of "The Jury" did not try harder to give their clever, innovative show an equally fresh look.
At the Crossing-Places Kevin CrOriony-Holland (Orion, £10.99) The second book in Crossley-Holland's ambitious Arthur trilogy that gives a clever slant on Arthurian legend.
