• For the first time in 30 years, Rubbermaid is changing the utilitarian design of its water pitcher, adding a swoosh-like handle and a rubbery bottom-half to match a new line of kitchen gewgaws.

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  • For the first time in 30 years, Rubbermaid is changing the unadorned, utilitarian design of its water pitcher, adding a swoosh-like handle and a rubbery bottom-half to match a new line of kitchen gewgaws like butter dishes and pepper shakers.

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  • The Kumbh Mela, which translates to "water-pitcher festival, " is believed to be at least two millennia old.

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  • In the sunny kitchen her cheerful reflection picked up a pitcher of water that caught the light.

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  • The young lady who ate the quail with me did not set my house on fire. (I kept a pitcher of water nearby just in case.) But the striking beauty and the deep perfume of all those roses certainly made her cheeks flush.

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  • "You'd have little packets that had this powder in it, you'd fill up your pitcher of water, you'd dump in the powder, stir it up, let it sit for a little bit, and then you'd have a permanent magnet that draws all the minerals down towards the bottom of the pot, and then you pour off the relatively clean water, " he said.

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  • She put great effort into the smallest details, from the pitcher of mint-infused water to the homemade date-and-ginger tea served at the end of the meal.

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  • Half an hour later, room service arrived with still and sparkling Voss--"just in case you don't like that kind, " said its bearer, winning me over with his wide grin as he motioned toward the pitcher of cucumber-mint water on the table.

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  • Many carry tridents and spears, but most carry kamandals - small brass or copper pitcher for carrying the holy Ganges water.

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  • Each is accented with Persian carpets, glass-beaded chandeliers, and Jacuzzis equipped with urns full of bath salts from the Dead Sea, as well as a welcome pitcher of lemonade sweetened with rose water.

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  • The shimmering water spills earthward, splashes into the bottom of the waiting glass pitcher on the tabletop.

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  • For we rather like being able to drive places, cook food, heat water and survive a Mid-West winter without having to melt the ice on the pitcher each morning.

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  • The glistening arc of water overruns the waiting cup, misses its mark, splashes over table and chair-the pitcher slipping from defeated fingers, striking the stone floor, shattering into jagged shards.

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  • The cup empties, the pitcher fills, the transfer follows itself to its own end, bubbles rise in the churning water and subside.

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