After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

Have a definite opinion.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.