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Even back then, Clark Gable wouldn't have touched this script with a ten- foot swizzle stick. Nor can Cruise find much to dine on here; the film is a 100-minute canape. Maybe it was meant to be a Bright Lights, Big City with a happy ending, and with booze instead of dope as the recreational drug of choice. Bryan Brown, who plays Cruise's misanthropic mentor, does eventually go the way of all flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash...
...small city of Sweetwater, near Miami, for example, people of all stripes come from miles around to dine at Los Ranchos. Opened in 1981 by Julio Somoza, nephew of the former Nicaraguan President, the elegant establishment is a beef house in the best Latin tradition. The house specialty: churrasco, a center cut of tenderloin marinated in chimichurri -- fresh chopped parsley, olive oil, garlic and spices. On a Saturday night at Versailles, the undisputed palace of Cuban cooking in the heart of Little Havana, Anglo couples slurp mamey milk shakes made from a sweet tropical fruit, while Cuban workmen just...
Such scholarly concerns were far from the minds of the men, women and children who poured into the grassy, sun-dappled Monterey County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m. each day to breakfast, lunch, dine and snack on two tons of squid < in infinite variations: crisply fried; elegantly sauteed in olive oil with tomatoes and green peppers, then flambeed with brandy; grilled on skewers as Thai satays, Japanese teriyaki or Middle Eastern kabobs; filling empanadas, the South American pastry turnovers, and Tex-Mex burritos; marinated with hot chili peppers in Latin-American seviche; sprinkled atop pizza, pasta and the Italian deep-fried...
After four years together, they take certain things for granted. If any of them wants to join the others for dinner--and often all four dine together--then he must meet up with his roommates at their suite at 5 p.m. sharp. Every morning it is Randy who wakes up and showers first, followed by Nick, then Erik then Andy...
...secretary was scheduled to depart from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington Monday evening, arrive in the Swiss capital of Bern today, dine with Yazov tonight, meet him twice tomorrow and once Thursday before returning to Washington later that...