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...gastronomic long march through China, this visitor can report that all the answers are true. There is indeed wonderful food, as well as some that is terrible, with much more that is merely mediocre. For every delectable experience, like a dinner of impeccable Peking duck with its glassily crisp skin folded into delicate crepes, there were several depressing meals of bland, gristly meat and canned vegetables swimming in grease, ineptly served in drab and dirty dining rooms...
...Palandjian served his way back into the game with some crisp overhead shots down the sideline to close the deficit...
...dark, oily chips. The steep price does not discourage devotees like Andrea Sharp, a Los Angeles waitress. "I'm not sure what it is, but every time I eat them, I think of Hawaii," she says. Maui has inspired knockoffs, and some of the imitations, such as the parchment-crisp Laura Scudder's, made in California, and the rustic Trader Joe's Habeas Crispus, from Oregon, beat out the original...
DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
...found in Merimee's gritty original novella -- was her conventional, boring bourgeois self, and the reserved British performers did not really get the sleaze factor right. This should have been Carmen: Beyond Thunderdome. Still, it boasted a brilliant performance by Mezzo Sally Burgess in the title role and some crisp conducting from Paul Daniel...