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...before you even get to the food: after waiting in line, thanks to the Ec 10 lecture that just let out, you find hamburgers and hot dogs that have been stewing in their own juices for an hour. Yesterday’s chicken appears in the chow mein or fajitas regularly, and many a student has scanned the menu only to find solace in the salad bar. And, of course, there is the constant knowledge that at any given moment, you will likely be in some tourist’s photo...
...annually on supplies. "Lifestyle" positioning demanded big changes in merchandise. Farmers raise livestock. Lifestyle farmers have pets and ride horses for fun. Farmers buy feed in quantity and cheaply. Faux farmers buy pet "food" and spare no expense. So TSC stocked up on equine products, bird supplies and pet chow. Out went the cheaper-by-the-ton stuff. In came fancier foods like Hill's Science Diet...
...1940s Shanghai, lovable vagabond Sing (played by writer/director/star Stephen Chow) accidentally sets off a war between the murderous Axe Gang and the residents of a quaint slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck...
...Chow himself expertly crafts a character whose adorable inadequacies prevent us from finding him morally reprehensible (his ill-fated attempt to throw knives at the Landlady will leave your ribs sore with giggles). The movie is chock-full of belly-laugh-inducing gags and individuals that require no knowledge of Asian culture to understand. In fact, some jokes—like the way in which fast-running characters develop blurry wheels where their legs should be—seem directly cribbed from American Saturday morning cartoons...
...comedy is Buster Keaton-- ish in its precision timing. Chow's swooping camera is as nimble, and as respectful of Hong Kong film tradition, as the veteran actors he has assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...