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...Spidey’s a trickster who likes to toy with his victims but not destroy them. He has a heart. He is the underdog who got a shot at greatness, and so many scrawny geeks can look at him and hope that someday, a genetically mutated dragonfly/wasp/scorpion will bite them. Spidey is the likable dork who got the girl. You see now why Maguire was such the perfect choice...
...exposed wood rafters on a rainy Sunday night, the restaurant attracts a hearty dinner crowd of families, MIT types and the aforementioned business travelers. White tablecloths have been cast aside in favor of exposed metal tabletops, leaving a casual sort of place where you can ask to have a bite of your neighbor’s entrée (or at least that’s what the guy sitting next to me found appropriate). Finding high-quality food in such a low-pretense atmosphere is certainly admirable, and this is what the Blue Room aspires to achieve. Though...
...entrees exemplify the restaurant’s African-western fusion. The grilled sea bass, a traditionally western dish, was presented atop a bath of tahini. The fish was merely decent upon the first bite, with a distinctly smoky taste. When swirled into the lemon-sesame sauce, however, the combination of flavors added vigor to the dish. The accompaniments of stewed green beans and grilled cubes of red potatoes rounded out the entrée. We also tried the vegetable terrine, which resembled a lasagna composed of layers of mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, and chickpeas. The grilled vegetables, enveloped in a slightly...
Those defensive lapses came back to bite Harvard, who had been left very little room for error by Piryk...
...same. Not a syllable of wit, a whisper of titillation. Jeong Jae Eun's Take Care of My Cat was similarly somnambulant in its treatment of the impending womanhood of five teenaged Koreans. Actress Bae Doo Na, who so lit up last year's Barking Dogs Never Bite, wastes her talent in this cinematic Sargasso Sea that sloshes but never gets roiling as the director seems content to let the camera whirr as his girls do, well, nothing...