2016年7月14日星期四

headed, slow-burning, burning hot-headed patriot, sentimental education, finishing school, movable feast

The director’s 18th-century epic is legendary for the hardships imposed upon its cast, with 150 takes for a single shot not uncommon. But, four decades on, the film’s stars remain united in praise of this beautiful, slow-burning masterpiece

Recipe for a Torn Europe: Add Horse. Stir.

By ANDREW HIGGINS

OLOMOUC, Czech Republic — Zuzana Navelkova’s discovery of horse in meatballs from Ikea poured fuel on a slow-burning scandal that has highlighted Europe’s rifts.

What McCullough’s Americans took home with them were less sentimental educations than artistic and intellectual ones; the finishing school and the movable feast came later. These years were about shaping art and principles, tasks with which France assisted by dispatching the Statue of Liberty and Tocqueville in the opposite direction. It bestowed a greater gift as well. “Coming here has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am,” Saint-Gaudens wrote. Pining for all that had once seemed unremarkable, he returned home “a burning hot-headed patriot.” That lesson too endures. Paris is the city to which good Americans go to learn that they really do love peanut butter.

Slow Burn

1. an attraction for someone what is not instant, but grows over time. 2. the process of becoming attracted to someone over a period of time.

Chuck was used to love at first sight, but was experiencing a slow burn since meeting Janice a few weeks ago and was certain she was the ONE!