Word: butchering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reasons to Move There: Depot Plaza, where Amish shoppers park their horses and buggies, is a downtown meeting place and festival site. Nice mix of old and new: John's Butcher Shop uses 500 meat lockers to store food for the Amish, who shun electricity at home; sports agent Mark Simpson, who lives here, shows his clients the money via fax or modem...
...better to get a feel for the Las Vegas style than in Las Vegas? So hordes of foreign gambling impresarios have trekked there to soak up the atmosphere and hire those creating it. "We're just so much bigger, and we really know what we're doing," says Len Butcher, managing editor of the trade journal Gaming Today. "The rest of the world is taking their first baby steps...
...plenty of opportunities for the strings to generate a beautiful sound. The solo by Concertmistress Jen Burney '99 was one of the best parts of the first movement and, incidentally, authored the most entertaining program note: "young Antonin's musical talent was discovered early during his apprenticeship as a butcher." Was this a rhythmic knock-the-ham-hock knack? Or did Dvorak's vegan soul have him whistling carrion dirges...
...want to learn as much as I can about Parisian society," he says. "Maybe I'll find some restaurant, maybe butcher shops, or vegetable sellers, or, my favorite, pastry chefs. I'll want to know how they become pastry chefs, what they have to learn, what kind of background they have, if they marry within the category of pastry makers... and I'll start by asking them how to make pastry...
Ezra F. Vogel, director of the Fairbank Center, said the public no longer sees the Chinese President as "just a butcher of Beijing...