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  • In all seriousness, I will miss Palin, her malapropisms, the fact that she thought Herman Cain's name was Herb, the way she stared at the camera as if it were made of jelly-beans, the way she delivered a mundane line as if she were reciting Ovid, and the way she made me feel substantially smarter than I actually am.

    Ziad Isa Khan: Sarah Palin's Revenge Ziad Isa Khan 2011

  • In all seriousness, I will miss Palin, her malapropisms, the fact that she thought Herman Cain's name was Herb, the way she stared at the camera as if it were made of jelly-beans, the way she delivered a mundane line as if she were reciting Ovid, and the way she made me feel substantially smarter than I actually am.

    Ziad Isa Khan: Sarah Palin's Revenge Ziad Isa Khan 2011

  • We ended the day, with most of the rest of the con's early arrivals, in a basement of hidden exits and jelly-beans (AKA the elusive consuite) talking with the Brothers K, Charles Stross (interviewed on Dragon Page regarding his infamous cover), and a bevy of other fabulous individuals.

    The WorldCon Report: Day One of Adventures in Denver gailcarriger 2008

  • The PV4 Jakob, looking like a grandfatherly patriarch over the glossy, colorful, wheeled jelly-beans on the rest of the stand is part of a clandestine attempt by Volvo North America's PR division to build a history for the brand in this country.

    Volvo digs up its Swedish roots 2007

  • The PV4 Jakob, looking like a grandfatherly patriarch over the glossy, colorful, wheeled jelly-beans on the rest of the stand is part of a clandestine attempt by Volvo North America's PR division to build a history for the brand in this country.

    Volvo digs up its Swedish roots 2007

  • SL with 5.2 million meaningless jelly-beans in the big, virtual glass jar. 739 stories in the last 30 days via Google News on "Second Life" + "Linden."

    Countdown to SL backlash 2006

  • Brite's food descriptions are mostly seriously mouth-watering, but my favorites were the ones of things I'd rather see than eat: the St. Joseph's altar with a rosary made of white chocolate and "a cake in the shape of a lamb, frosted white and finished with coconut for wool and jelly-beans for eyes"; the chocolate mold of Napoleon Bonaparte's death mask, filled with a frozen mousse of Napoleon brandy and Camembert ice cream.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Brite's food descriptions are mostly seriously mouth-watering, but my favorites were the ones of things I'd rather see than eat: the St. Joseph's altar with a rosary made of white chocolate and "a cake in the shape of a lamb, frosted white and finished with coconut for wool and jelly-beans for eyes"; the chocolate mold of Napoleon Bonaparte's death mask, filled with a frozen mousse of Napoleon brandy and Camembert ice cream.

    November 2005 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Brite's food descriptions are mostly seriously mouth-watering, but my favorites were the ones of things I'd rather see than eat: the St. Joseph's altar with a rosary made of white chocolate and "a cake in the shape of a lamb, frosted white and finished with coconut for wool and jelly-beans for eyes"; the chocolate mold of Napoleon Bonaparte's death mask, filled with a frozen mousse of Napoleon brandy and Camembert ice cream.

    Two novels, fat and thin Jenny Davidson 2005

  • It was of the lovely, violent red of certain jelly-beans she had known, and she caught the most tantalizing, cavernous glimpses whenever he grinned.

    The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919

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