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“Times were hard and chocolatey delights were not for the common people. Still, he dreamed of a magic formula that would enable everyone to enjoy his sweet treats.”
“I’m pretty sure that our parents and grandparents didn’t complain when Ralph Kramden didn’t finish his fantasies of domestic violence when he exclaimed ‘One of these days …’ ”
— DANY MITZMAN AT BBC.COM
— MICHAEL REID ROBERTS AT THEAMERICANREADER.COM defends
celebrates the 50th anniversary of Nutella with the story of the sweet treat’s humble beginnings. Pietro Ferrero, a confectioner in the Italian town of Alba, initially launched the hazelnut-cocoa concoction in loaves called Giandujot that had to be cut with a knife. Ferrero adjusted the formula, and in 1964 launched the spreadable sweet that the world can’t seem to get enough of.
the growing use of phrases such as “I can’t even,” saying that such usage is an example of aposiopesis: trailing off when excited or overwhelmed. “I can’t even,” Roberts says, is just the latest example of sentence construction used by the likes of Virgil, Shakespeare and the high-tempered Ralph Kramden of “The Honeymooners,” above.
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“Mmm … hops.” — ISAAC HANSON AT PEOPLE.COM
reacts to a big gulp of the pale ale he launched with his brothers, formerly the band Hanson. Isaac describes the beer, calling it “a very malty pale ale. It’s got a lively nose to it. This is a good introductory pale ale for those that are not familiar with craft beer.” Produced in the band’s hometown of Tulsa, Okla., the beer, Mmmhops, has been available in the Midwest for almost a year, but was made available nationwide last week in celebration of American Craft Beer Week, which ended on Sunday.
“ ‘We Exist’ is yet another early contender for the year’s best music video.”
“Again, what I’m about to describe doesn’t always produce a happy result, but it does so more often than would occur randomly. For mathematicians, that’s enough.”
— ROBERT KRULWICH AT NPR.ORG lays out what he calls the best way to “marry the board with Arcade Fire’s new right girl,” based on a new book by Alex music video for the song “We Bellos, “The Grapes of Math.” Using Exist” off the band’s latest album, the long process that Johannes Kepler 2013’s “Reflektor.” In the video, underwent to find a wife as an examAndrew Garfield of “The Amazple, mathematician Martin Gardner ing Spider-Man” fame plays a man determined in 1960 that in a series of struggling with his gender idenoptions, such as eligible bachelorettes, tity in a rural town. It ends with the best choice — or woman of your Garfield in a wig and makeup joindreams — usually shows up after the ing Arcade Fire onstage at Coachfirst 36.8 percent. So in Kepler’s case, ella, in a sequence filmed live at No. 5 out of 11 was the ideal match. the California music festival. — DEE LOCKETT AT SLATE.COM is on
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