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...Such a buffet of contemptibility can work--see Curb Your Enthusiasm--with a good, mature cast. Coupling's, like so many post-Friends ensembles, is just smirky thirtysomething kids with $100 haircuts. The show does have a touch for madcap-farce plots based on lies and miscommunications, even if they're a bit farfetched. (The pilot, for instance, requires that you believe the stalls in a women's bathroom are soundproof.) At times you see, as on a disappointing date, the sophisticated adult Coupling could have become. Instead, it sidles up to us in its pleated Dockers, asking lamely...
...answer, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, is yes. When 24 volunteers were injected with PYY or a placebo and set loose on a buffet lunch, all the subjects who got PYY--fat and thin--packed away a third fewer calories. The same study revealed that obese people make a third less PYY than their thinner counterparts. No wonder they overeat...
...Barking Crab’s rudimentary cracking devices, along with its blasé Jimmy Buffet atmosphere, make for a fun and relaxing dining experience. Even the waitstaff is in good spirits, sailing from table to table while whistling along to the eclectic background music. Tarr and the rest of the restaurant’s staff don’t differentiate between work and play. “We have a very happy staff,” Tarr says, maybe because “the people who come in are usually in a good mood and fun to work...
...best ethnic food cities in the country,” Stone says. “In Allston alone you have great Indian restaurants, and you have El Capital, a great Colombian restaurant. You’ve even got Sunset Grill with 100 beers on tap, burgers, and midnight Mexican buffet. Then there’s Café Belo, a Brazilian BBQ where you pay by the pound...
Each bunco party is as different as the women playing it. Most parties rotate hosting duties and all include food, but the fare can run from a lavish meal complete with china and linen to a potluck buffet. Some adopt a theme for each month's meeting, like a haunted house with all the players wearing Halloween costumes...