HOT TIPS YOU LOVE ME ...Thanks to Morrow See To-morrow in the Vocabulary. See also: Morrow Publishing for helping us keep all the Valentine's Day bases covered. Received in the same package this week: ``The Most Important Thing I Know About Love: Inspiring Messages From Eminent Writers, Poets, Musicians, Thinkers and Others'' (Morrow; $13), and ``Healing Hearts: Compassionate Writers on Breaking Up'' (Morrow; $16 ... Hmmm. It seems that breaking up is not only hard to do, it's also more expensive.) Is your holiday mood going to be Hallmark or hell? Pick a passage: --``Love is like hash. You have to have confidence to enjoy it,'' writes Bob Hope in ``About Love,'' ad-libbing as Huckleberry huckleberry, any plant of the genus Gaylussacia, shrubs of the family Ericaceae (heath family), native to North and South America. The box huckleberry (G. brachycera) of E North America is evergreen and is often cultivated. The common huckleberry (G. Haines in the 1933 Broadway Production ``Roberta.'' --``Why is the measure of love loss?'' writes Jeanette Winterson in a short story reprinted in ``Healing Hearts.'' ``It hasn't rained for three months. The trees are prospecting underground, sending reserves of roots into the dry ground, roots like razors opening any artery water-fat. The grapes have withered on the vine. What should be plump and firm, resisting the touch to give itself in the mouth, is spongy spongy /spon·gy/ (spun´je) of a spongelike appearance or texture. spong·y adj. Resembling a sponge in appearance, elasticity, or porosity. and blistered.'' And so on. Happy - or unhappy? - Valentine's Day. - Phil Davis ... YOU LOVE ME NOT You loved him and he left you. And you'd like him to feel a little vicarious vicarious /vi·car·i·ous/ (vi-kar´e-us) 1. acting in the place of another or of something else. 2. occurring at an abnormal site. vi·car·i·ous adj. 1. pain for giving you that achy-breaky heart? Try taking out your grief on Boutique Beverly Hills' muslin muslin, general name for plain woven fine white cottons for domestic use. It is believed that muslins were first made at Mosul (now a city of Iraq). They were widely made in India, from where they were first imported to England in the late 17th cent. voodoo doll. Unlike older models, this little guy has a clear plastic sleeve over the face to accommodate a photo, and he comes with a set of pearl-tipped pins for placing wherever your little broken heart desires. The polyester-filled doll is 11 inches tall, costs $29 and can be purchased at www.boutiquebeverlyhills.com, or by calling (877) 902-1075. - Barbara De Witt A LITTLE SLICE OF HEAVEN "Slice Of Heaven" is a single by New Zealand singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn featuring Herbs, released in 1986 alongside the animated motion picture, . The single became #1 on the 3 October 1986 and stayed there for 8 weeks. After 25 weeks in the chart, the single became Gold. (NO CALORIES) Rich, moist chocolate cake, the kind with fudge frosting frosting the slight graying of the haircoat around the face, particularly muzzle, in dogs with aging and as a regular feature of some breeds such as the Belgian shepherd dog. that melts on lips and sticks to your hips. Ahh, sweet memories. If you've avoided kitchen time with Betty Crocker because you're counting calories, rekindle re·kin·dle tr.v. re·kin·dled, re·kin·dling, re·kin·dles 1. To relight (a fire). 2. To revive or renew: rekindled an old interest in the sciences. the romance with a single match. We discovered the company famous for cake mixes has whipped up a collection of cake-shaped candles that look and smell like the real thing. The life-size cake slices are available in angel food, lemon, strawberry and vanilla scents, as well as TWO types of chocolate Chocolate exists in several types according to the proportion of ingredients used in a particular recipe. In several instances the use of particular name designations is subject to governmental regulation. (fudge and German chocolate), priced at $7 each. Or you can buy the whole cake for $14.99 at gift shops, including Coach House Gifts at the Fallbrook Mall in West Hills; the Welcome Home store in Lancaster; and the Le Gourmet Chef shop at the Camarillo Premium Center in Camarillo. Think of the possibilities. You can make your house smell homey without getting out the egg beater or turning on the oven (and maybe sell your house quicker, say Realtors); you can diffuse less-appetizing odors (like burned broccoli or fish), and also indulge in a chocolate fix without the fat. - Barbara De Witt CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) no caption (Book covers) (3 -- color) no caption (Muslin voodoo doll) (4 -- color) no caption (Chocolate cake candle) |
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