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...vacationed together in Puerto Rico. At first she made the typical concoction of strawberries, ice and vodka, but as the night wore on, the ingredients became more and more bizarre: peanut butter, milk, a strange vegetable paella she found in the refrigerator and then finally a leftover chicken dish with olives, tomatoes and cheese. How did she get her friends to drink this stuff? They were drunk and believed what she said: "I told them, 'It's my secret sauce, secret recipe, private blend.' They drank it. And it smelled atrocious." And she laughs again...
...right, look. We possess no special dish about Lovett and Roberts. As for the primal emotions on The Road to Ensenada--feelings of guilt, betrayal, failure, vengefulness--these can also be found in something like 95% of all country songs written by people who were never married to Julia Roberts. But only about 5% are as potent as the tunes here--whoever inspired it, this is Lovett's solidest package in a long, ornery career...
...high table of presidential politics, primary campaigns are sumptuous nine-course affairs. Aspiring candidates put on long white aprons, line up behind tables full of flickering Sterno, and dish out issues and arguments to fatten the voters. This year the smorgasbord from Iowa to California groaned under all the offerings: flattening the tax structure, abolishing free-trade agreements, limiting the terms of lawmakers, reinventing welfare or health care or public housing or farm subsidies, spending more on defense, cutting this agency or that, restricting immigration. In this context voters could come to believe that those they elected would determine what...
...delicacy and inventiveness, nothing exceeds the painting and ceramics of the Sung dynasty (960-1279). The show includes examples of Ju porcelain, the rarest and most esteemed type of Chinese ceramic: a lotus bowl and a dish with bodies as thin as fingernails, the absolute simplicity of their form etherialized by their pale turquoise glaze, a color so subtle that it seems to be emitting light rather than reflecting...
Freshman football player Kane Waller, meanwhile, always likes to have the same pregame meal. In the few instances where he was unable to have his usual dish of baked scrod and rice, his performance was mixed...