Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McGregor as the young Obi-Wan-Kenobi (if you think about what Titanic did for DiCaprio, imagine what will happen to indie-film-loving McGregor). Lucas knows that characters--unlike many sci-fi special effects extravaganzas--are the key Star Wars' success. Thus, he casts B-list stars that blend into the Star Wars world without ruining the illusion...
...closely confined in 44 metal buildings, where exhaust fans continuously pump out tons of pungent ammonia, mixed with tons of grain dust and fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation water for much of that part of the country...
Tibetan food is a unique blend of Chinese, Indian and Thai cuisine...
...MELTING POT, BUT A SALAD BOWL." This, we are told, is multicultural America, where different ethnicities don't simply blend into a common fondue of American identity but retain their distinctive flavor to enrich a larger American salad. Ideally, the lettuce appreciates the tomatoes for the tomato-ness, the mushrooms for their mushroom-ness, and so on; yet we are often too busy to examine each component of the salad bowl for its complexities. We chew it quickly, sensing only what is most immediate to our tastebuds, nod, and move on to the next bite, Thus it is that American...
Before the Crimson and Bulldogs battle it out on the football field tomorrow, the Harvard and Yale Glee clubs will be suiting up in their tuxedoes and fighting for the better tone quality and blend. Those choir boys can get vicious. Be there to see if a fight breaks out over the harmony at The Harvard-Yale Football Concert. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre, 496-2222. Tickets $8/$6 for students, $14/$10 general...