Word: basile
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Pinnochio’s tomato and basil pizza—for life...
Puppeteer Basil Twist In his Symphonie Fantastique, he dunked pieces of cloth in a giant aquarium and made them dance to Berlioz. Were it not for mimes, he would get beaten up daily...
...Over a tomato, basil and mozzarella salad, Eric shared the secret of his restaurant karma: a hands-free mobile phone and Tellme, a popular American voice-activated service that responds to defined voice prompts and provides free stock quotes, weather and entertainment guides to 35,000 U.S. cities. The speech recognition technology that Tellme employs isn't rocket science. But it is simple and effective...
...return," he says. "This is where I'll make my home." Increasingly, his new home looks like the one he left behind. The area around the Gubei district, where many transplants live, is crowded with Taiwan restaurant chains serving island specialties like fried oysters and clams with basil, while sidewalk vendors peddle Taiwanese favorites like betel nut and barbecued chicken sphincters on a stick. Taiwanese madams oversee karaoke bar-brothels. Bemused new arrivals can get help with acclimation from books like the bestseller Shanghai Migrants, which advises that "a few thousand yuan a month will support a second wife...
...doctor in an awkward position. "I am not seeking high posts," he told Al-Wasat, an Arabic magazine published in London. "But I will not evade my responsibilities." Bashar is, in many ways, a more impressive figure than was his brother, says British author and Assad biographer Patrick Seale. "Basil was a very physical man, very keen on dangerous sports like hang gliding, parachuting, fast cars," Seale recalls. "[Bashar] is much more reflective, much more thoughtful. Much more able to implement or pursue the political legacy of his father...