Word: beaning
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...being very tall and having red hair, doesn't stick out. He looks backgroundy, and his shockingly mellow demeanor makes him extra-unnoticeable. But when Ferrell is on, he's a gale force of guileless enthusiasm. He's John Belushi with control, Pee-wee Herman without the creepiness, Mr. Bean with mastery of his motor skills. He's the comedian you want to simultaneously laugh at, hug and down a beer with. Now, after seven years of yelling, saucering his eyes and flailing his hands on Saturday Night Live, Ferrell, 36, is getting a shot at becoming a movie star...
...Japonaise Bakery, poised right outside the entrance to the restaurant section. The pastries are delivered daily from the bakery’s home base in Brookline. Its well-lit glass cases contain curry doughnuts ($1.75) and An Pan ($1.30), a Japanese pastry filled with sweet red azuki bean paste. They also host classic French pastries such as croissants ($1.50), which are extraordinarily flaky and butter-filled. The bitter chocolate croissant is one of the best I’ve ever...
...little spooked--children in this area are raised on ghost stories of imperial ancestors, haunting mischievous villagers. As the men tossed up spadefuls of dirt, chatting and laughing under the glare of a light hooked up to a generator, Feng noticed a smell he likened to fermented bean curd...
Recapturing Boeing's glory, not to mention its global market share (in 1999 it held 67%; now, less than 50%), will be difficult. But the company says it has a plane design that airlines will buy, passengers will like and bean counters will love. It's a subsonic fuel-efficient jet the company rather inelegantly calls the 7E7. The 7E7, a midsize, 200-seat aircraft that is designed to fly so-called point-to-point routes nonstop, stands in stark contrast to the massive, 555-seat double-decker Airbus A380 that will probably keep to traditional hub-and-spoke networks...
FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE BEAN...