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...show. Now he's hoping his two vocations will meld like orecchiette and broccoli rabe at his new restaurant, Rocco's, which doubles as the set of a reality-TV show. The Restaurant (NBC, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T., starting July 20) will chronicle the (we're told) sexy, pressure-cooker world of a high-profile restaurant...
Morris says that the overall pressure-cooker atmosphere of the combine is somewhat alleviated by the jovial nature of the fellow players involved. Players from all different locales and conferences got to know each other, becoming fast friends and awaiting the day they will be millionaires...
...tasty,” she says. “The problem is that it is usually very costly and hard to come across. Plus, it takes a long time to cook. The meat is chewy, so it has to be boiled for a long, long time in a pressure cooker before it is soft enough...
Possibly, as a graduate of an academic pressure cooker (MIT), Summers believes that all students should go through the same exhausting experience that he endured. What he fails to realize, from what I have seen, is that first of all, Harvard students are challenged academically and work extremely hard at their studies. Secondly, not all that they gain from a Harvard education is found in the classroom...
...Yang is one of the crazed. His damaged mind is "like a pressure cooker that is so full that the safety valve is blocked up ... the only way out is to explode." Perversely liberated by his injury, Yang erupts in a rage of truth and insanity, one moment cursing a system that regards scholars like him as "just a piece of meat on a cutting board", and the next admitting to a shameful desire to be an official, to be the knife that cuts. He sings fragments of revolutionary songs in praise of Chairman Mao, then discourses on a passage...