Word: chilies
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...language is bad English, and much of that can be heard at Euro Disney. "I gezz zare was a mizunderstood," apologizes a French staff member who boasts, "I speak British." Fractured franglais is also spoken here. At Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show -- a dinner theater where you eat chili and spareribs while watching Annie Oakley fire at cowbells that play La Marseillaise -- the host tells his auditors, "If yer hungry, let me hear you shout, 'Nous avez faim!' " But there can be charm in Babel when the tower has such comely flying buttresses, and when the 12,000 villagers...
...from happy in Moscow. He and his wife miss their family and friends and the comforts of life in the U.S. Routine diversions are meager: on weekends he might shop for souvenirs or artwork in the Old Arbat near Spaso House, then return home and warm up canned chili for lunch. "Helen and I gave up a life we simply loved to come over here," Strauss says. "We didn't do it because I wanted to add another title to my resume or to be exposed to a Russian winter. We came over here because President Bush said he wanted...
Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...
...Fortunately, Hillary Clinton, the latest wife to be challenged to fit perfectly into the ill-defined role of political spouse, is more interesting than that. At her home, Christmas Eve dinner for longtime friends and family was more potluck than Bon Appetit: it consisted of chili and black beans supplemented by leftovers from an official dinner. She plays pinochle and Pictionary with such vigor that friends have to remind her they're only games. She succumbs to yuppie overdoting on her daughter, 11. "There is Chelsea standing on a chair singing Angels We Have Heard on High...
This is, of course, a lie. The Chili's on Mount Auburn St. is the same as the Chili's on Huntington Ave. In Boston is the same as the Chili's on 3rd Ave. in New York is the same as the Chevy's in San Francisco is the same as every Bennigan's is the same as every Houlihan's is the same every T.G.I. Friday's. Every Gap is like every other Gap, whether you are in London, England, Austin, Texas, or Durham, North Carolina. And every Gap is like every Limited or Bennetton...