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...world's other star molecular gastronomist, Heston Blumenthal of London's Fat Duck, largely avoided the question of technology versus taste, instead focusing on a new element in his ongoing quest to generate emotion through food. He introduced a new reservation system for his restaurant that involves a website tour and aromatizers filled with candy scents. It's all part of a plan to create excitement even before the client walks in the restaurant door. "The one thing I want a customer to say is that they had fun," said Blumenthal...
...straight man is the audience. I like being the tour guide. It's a lot of responsibility to be the element that tethers a scene to the real world...
...fell short of head coach Katey Stone’s hopes for the evening, the nice round sum of 2,000, and the program’s record of 1,921, established in January 2004.There’s one factor in common to these four-digit fests, one element pertinent to all of these memorable winter nights: the opponent. In a word, Dartmouth. The Big Green have a way not just of bringing out the most, in terms of Harvard’s fans, but the best, in terms of Harvard’s performance. That was certainly...
...Nicolas Sarkozy drew protests when he used a racially loaded term to denounce young men rioting in the suburbs last year - an outcry that also coincided with his jump in polls. The street patois of those ethnically diverse projects, meanwhile, has also long contained its own racially aggressive "shock" element, with the rejoinder "ta race" (your race) a kind of generic, all-purpose slight. Clearly, the political "filter" in the U.S. public square that prompts a Michael Richards or a Mel Gibson to grovel apologetically following publicly recorded racial insults is considerably less developed in France. Indeed, last year...
...penguin without a heartsong could truly belong?" asks Happy Feet's narrator at one point. This being a George Miller movie, the answer is an entertainingly entangled double negative-together with a family-friendly environmental message as light on its feet as the dance work. "You can see that element of the healer in all of George's works," insists Szubanski. "And I think that's partly why he's drawn to the hero's journey, because it's ultimately very optimistic." Though he's one of Australia's greatest cultural exports, Miller is less sanguine when it comes...