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...Biscuit, a West Coast horse, wins his big race--a head-to-head encounter with War Admiral, owned by a snooty Eastern establishment figure--which may be the story's natural end, but it's not the true one or the movie's. The horse gets hurt. Pollard gets hurt. They must try to make one last comeback, which overrides conventional movie wisdom as surely as the horse galloped past racing's conventional wisdom...
...essence ($19), poached salmon belly with frothed milk ($23) and caviar with hard-poached eggs ($98). Upon checking into the Beverly Hills Hotel, a dog is met by a greeter who escorts him to his room, where he'll find a pink doggie bed, pink tennis balls and a biscuit jar filled with bone-shape cookies with the dog's name (given at the time of the reservation) written in pink icing, all for a flat fee of $250 a stay...
...brings the perfect tension to songs about sex and longing. Blessedly, Elephant, the White Stripes' fourth album, is all about sex and longing. Seven Nation Army and There's No Home for You Here are grinding guitar classics about postbreakup frustration. (Brother and sister? Sure.) Ball and Biscuit is classically naughty and bluesy, while You've Got Her in Your Pocket and I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart are soft, hymnal and far sweeter than you would think White capable of. ("What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull," he asks...
...GLOBALIZATION THEORY To the always irreverent papers in Beirut, the situation smelled of sweet, sweet irony: the President of the U.S. nearly killed by the product of his country's own cultural imperialism. The Kifah al-Arabi daily called the snack in question a "terrorist biscuit," and noted that "this incident highlighted the harmful effects of the fast-food products promoted by the 'globalization' of the United States...
Years ago I owned a dog named Ziggy. Like many people and their pets, we were embroiled in a co-dependent relationship that prompted me at times to play games I knew would annoy him. One of my favorites was to take a doggy treat--a biscuit, say, or some hamburger--drop it into a glass bottle and toss it in front...