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Having agreed to share entrees, I was a bit nervous about my choice, "chicken vegetable fried noodle." How could this bland little meal ever compare to curry chicken or squid? Fortunately, the squid was too chewy for most, and the chicken, though popular, was too spicy for my taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squid, Soup and Soy Sauce: A Chinatown Dinner Party | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...vegetable noodles, however, were an overwhelming hit. The noodles were a bit thinner and crisper than standard Lo Mein fare, but the difference was appealing. Generous portions of scallions and mushrooms and lightly fried chicken rounded out the meal, and complemented the Molson well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squid, Soup and Soy Sauce: A Chinatown Dinner Party | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Quayle's role has been anything but "traditional." Protest signs reading VERY PRETTY, BUT CAN HE TYPE? are almost as common along the Quayle trail as those reading CHICKEN HAWK. His wife Marilyn, a lifelong Quayle handler, told reporters her husband tries to reread Plato's Republic once a year. She sounded like one of the oldtime MGM publicity men who, whenever a starlet got into trouble, churned out a press release announcing her enrollment in correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. Ridicule is as contagious in politics as it is in show business: even a few Bush aides privately call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...Free Press explaining his position to the student body. In the ad, Ray did not say he had been pressured by the dean, perhaps because the dean paid for the ad. In any case, the march on Silber's house was cancelled, a testimony to the chicken-heartedness of student leaders in the face of a devious administration...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Your Guest is as Good as Mine | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

Maybe the sky won't fall if we don't do something like this. But don't blame Chicken Little if it does. Cluck, cluck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Issues Deficits: Lunchtime Is Over | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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