Word: digester
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...Thai horoscope, for example, is a baffling hybrid of Chinese, Indian and Western systems. Thai beauty queens still scoop their hair into a style called a faaraa, as in Farrah Fawcett. One of the most beloved singers of Thai country music is a Swede called Jonas. This ability to digest foreign influences is sometimes literal: villagers plagued by Bombay locusts 10 years ago solved the problem by frying and eating them...
These prog-rock embellishments seem more Rush than Pink Floyd; while creating a final package that takes more time to digest, like the worst offenders of the genre, they also detract from the intensely accomplished peaks the band manages to climb. Ultimately, though, I doubt the Mars Volta will ever hold back much on the grandiosity. Even with their bloodstreams and lungs clean, Bixler and Rodriguez’s twisted mind trips will impact the presentation of their music more than appropriate...
...advice for the actors who will be getting Oscar nods later this month? Digest it. Absorb it. Observe it. Don't have an anxiety attack. When I was talking to some of the other nominees last year, I couldn't find anybody behind their pupils. They took it too seriously...
...From a macroeconomic perspective, "Going Out" often works to China's advantage. The country now attracts more money through exports and foreign investment than its economy can comfortably digest, causing speculative bubbles in some sectors. This capital inflow is boosted by investors' betting that the government will sooner or later revalue the national currency, which is pegged to the U.S. dollar and is widely thought to be undervalued. Outbound investment by Chinese companies removes dollars from swelling national reserves, easing pressure on the renminbi to appreciate. China has given 22 of its cities and provinces the right to approve overseas...
...figure or show-biz great into the vehicle for a star turn (from Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight to Tovah Feldshuh's Golda's Balcony, which opened last season and is still running--so make that six!) seems a lazy way of making rich subject matter easy to digest--and almost guaranteeing a Tony acting nod in the bargain. Then there are the autobiographical shows, which can occasionally be dishy and inspired (Elaine Stritch at Liberty) but just as often superfluous ego trips (Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). The real growth industry in the past few years...