Word: charly
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...Nyonya, which serves a spicy, delicious blend of Chinese and Malaysian cuisine, caused much head scratching. The beautiful curved-glass windows with a minimal interior designed by London's Four IV gives little away and, to the uninitiated, menu entries with names like otak-otak and ju hu char don't help much. But the food has a centuries-old pedigree, as the product of Chinese settlements in Malacca, as Malaysia was known during the Ming dynasty. (The word nyonya refers to female descendants of mixed marriages that occurred in the area.) It's the original Asian fusion cuisine. Some...
...like to know what's going to happen next in medicine, technology and the arts, but only as it applies to my health, my gadgets and my career. So I tried to find out what I've got coming over the next two years. I started with Char Margolis, Los Angeles' psychic to the stars and the author of Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven. After a whole lot of time talking about which letters the names of my family and friends start with--which I already knew--she got me to tell her that my wife Cassandra...
...Char told me that my grandmother Mama Ann was going to fall and break something. And that my mom should get herself checked for cancer. And that my co-worker Romesh Ratnesar had "success around him," which I think just meant she followed our Iraq coverage. Char told me, three times, that despite the fact that neither Cassandra nor I ski, "I see you two on a ski trip." And Char said that if my friend Adam Sachs has any premonitions about a terrorist attack to get the hell out of New York City. I foresee Adam spending much...
...incipient TV career going, Char said, I need to network. "This is the time to start schmoozing," she told me. Then she said she had some TV deals of her own going and suggested I call her friend Brad Bessey, a producer at Entertainment Tonight who was looking for a host for a spin-off. Her networking predictions were happening very fast...
...pretty happy with Char's predictions, which sounded like a pretty good deal for me, though not so much for Mom, Mama Ann and the greater New York City area. Still, I'm thinking either Vail or Whistler...