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...style for most of the giant monster movies to come. Special-effects designer Willis O'Brien's giant ape was the source of awe and terror--even the camera froze on him while he did his stuff. To movie-goers of 1933, O'Brien's small moth-eaten model--which had to be moved ever-so slightly and filmed for a fraction of a second at a time--was a revelation, the ultimate fantasy. If Kong appears jerky and slightly ridiculous to us, it must have seemed so to them--except they appreciated Kong's artificiality, they wanted...
Pidgin for a mouth-watering dish is brok'd'moutt (it breaks the mouth). While Hawaiian cuisine may never break Michelin's mouth, Maui offers some distinctive delicacies: ophis (yellow limpets) eaten raw, chicken stewed in coconut milk, kuolo (coconut and sweet-potato pudding) and macadamia-nut pie, aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya...
Rowinsky's cheesecake challenge is also good for business. Each contestant must pay for the cake in advance and is only repaid if the cake is eaten within an hour. At $11 each and about 100 unsuccessful attempts, that adds up to a lot of cheeseeake...
...Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who has them ground up and served as meat pies in her pie shoppe. This musical is a black-comedy opera with helpings of ha'penny Brecht. Its underlying theme, and épater le bourgeois tone, is that man exists only to eat or be eaten by his fellows...
Gold glitters not just because it is scarce but also because the future of many other investments seems so chancy. Inflation in the U.S., revolutions and coups around the world−the litany of upheavals has ceaselessly eaten away at people's faith in the abilities of their governments to deal effectively with the multiplying threats to global stability. The result has been a worldwide boom in doom, and in the marketplace of despair gold stands out like a beacon of security...