It's highly evocative, trance-like music that transports you to a campfire in the heart of the Sahara, scarves swathed round your face to keep out the biting wind, camels tethered in the shadows, endless glasses of sweet tea, stars twinkling overhead.
"She's very sweet, very gentle, with a twinkle in her eye.
"And the stars said, 'We will twinkle and sprinkle sweet dreams down to you.' " Kate Feiffer's straightforward prose and clever, humorous story speak to Everybaby, and Jules Feiffer's jangly-limbed, blue-eyed boy, illustrated in pen-and-ink with washes of blue watercolor, is adorability incarnate.
Scented candles twinkled.
The resurrection of AMD is sweet indeed for Jerry Sanders, the white-haired, twinkle-eyed chief executive who finally seems to have a chance to get out of the shadow of Intel's Andy Grove and Craig Barrett.
Audiences can still go to Regent's Park for twinkle and spangle and dapple, for sweet scents and dripping discomfort, for charm and gaiety and Midsummer Night's Dream.
When he talks about that viola there is a twinkle in his eye and a sweet sadness in his voice.
Deck chairs are replaced by tables for two, towel boys are redressed as waiters, and the smell of sweet shisha fills the air as water pipes are shared by twinkling candlelight.
"It occurred to me it's a wicked notion," he explained, his blue eyes twinkling, making him look dangerously like the kind of sweet old coot he says he disdains.
The sweet scent of jasmine wafted up the leafy hillsides, the lights of Los Angeles twinkled below, and the cash register ca-CHINGed until it was stuffed with $2.8 million.
