Word: beane
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Dinner, yes, dinner: appetizers come in all shapes and sizes, and a good combination would be the Chantal Cheese Bread Pudding with Apples along with the Curried Coconut Shrimp and Black Bean Salsa ($8.95, $6.95). The contrast between an exceptionally soft and sweet dish, and the crispy spicy flavor of the other keeps the palate on edge right up until the main course (which, incidentally, immediately follows the silent removal of empty appetizer dishes). In terms of entrees, Chez Henri's offers a little of everything: from paella to venison to the traditional steak--but each dish is a meal...
Notwithstanding the tear gas and bean-bag-like projectiles, I am not amazed by the actions in Roby, Ill., where state troopers have Shirley Allen under siege [AMERICAN SCENE, Oct. 27] for resisting a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. It seems there is no right to privacy or constitutional safeguard when others decide you are not conforming to an accepted method of living. Hence we have the rule of the masses in the guise of what is right and moral. When there is no longer room in a society for individuality or eccentricity, then we shall lose our greatest resource. EUGENE...
Sure they're pasty, effete and live in the past, but the great thing about the English is that they seem smart even when acting stupid. ROWAN ATKINSON's inane mime character, Mr. Bean, washes up on American shores Friday in Bean. Atkinson realizes that Bean's immature antics may not appeal to everyone. "Most of my friends don't have time for Mr. Bean," he says. "For those who prefer their humor more verbal, more literary, or indeed harder or ruder, Bean is not their thing...
...phrases unavoidably spring up when listening to the Bean soundtrack: genre-defying incoherence, void of musical focus, gratuitous marketing and a waste of raw materials. In addition to providing another unnecessary compilation of unrelated tunes for the consumer public, the inexplicable, unnecessary nature and order of Bean: The Album represents every shred of numbing dumbness that bleeds throughout the movie. But there is an unavoidable counterpart to this misdirected stupidity that becomes apparent with each silly song; the tracks are connected by an inane disconnectedness reminiscent of the classic, original Mr. Bean character that could blossom into a smirch...
Ambivalence is never a completely favorable trait in the musical world, especially for an inherently questionable soundtrack, but it somehow keeps Bean from the movie music graveyard. The surf-rock doo-wop of the Beach Boys' "I Get Around" and the 80s staple "Walking on Sunshine" from Katrina and the Waves lend a familiar sound to a bunch of otherwide deservedly unknown songs. Don't think that unpopularity leaves other tracks necessarily disappointing. "I Love L.A." by the revivors of this past summer's Latin element, O.M.C., has a catchy groove, Boyzone's "Picture of You" frolicks in generic...