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...things work out in this comfortably intricate comedy by Ang Lee (who directed last year's The Wedding Banquet), their father, despite his obsession with food, does better than any of them romantically. This is perhaps because cooking at his level has taught him to blend the practical, paradoxical gifts of calculation and improvisation, while his children are -- until they finally right themselves -- befuddled by abstractions and distractions. Like the cuisine it celebrates, this movie is tart, sweet, generous and subtle...
This volunteer also complained about Kennedy's beverage selection. Kennedy's beverage selection. Kennedy offered a free glass of wine or a beer to each convention delegate, but Marriott banquet services charged $1.75 for a glass...
...late November, the temperature outside hovered near zero, and six of us were sitting fully clothed in an unused basement bathhouse beneath a rundown hotel in central Russia. The water in the green-tiled pool had long ago turned an oily, opaque black, and from the cavernous banquet room directly above our heads rock music reverberated. Hardly an ideal venue for a business meeting, but there are few safe places to discuss the sale of 200 lbs. of stolen emeralds...
...Poland's border will be made," he said on a visit to the first congress of a small Polish right-wing group. BORING ZHIRINOVSKY, a Polish newspaper headlined its story: "Vladimir Volfovich did not violate borders yesterday, he drank within limits, loved Poles and went to bed after the banquet." Tuesday: Presented Richard Nixon with a copy of his autobiography, The Last March South, inscribed, "Don't support the losers in the last elections -- there's no future in it." A copy for President Clinton contained this message: "I don't want to be misunderstood by you." Wednesday: Announced...
...banquet's keynote speaker was Joe Bertagna, the Executive Director of ECAC Hockey and Team USA's Assistant General Manager and Goaltending Coach during the recent Lillehammer Olympiad. He had some interesting things to says about America's Olympic hockey effort...