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...Once I get into the rhythm, that’s when I can try to be fancier because that’s when I’m relaxed,” Hendricks said...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Trinity Overpowers W. Squash in Commanding Victory | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...iteration of Taco Bell in Shanghai, where the company is trying to repeat its KFC and Pizza Hut success with Mexican fare. Little of the Taco Bell formula has been imported from the U.S. The Shanghai outlet, which opened last May, is called Taco Bell Grande. It's a fancier, sit-down restaurant, a concept that is gaining traction in China with the popularity of T.G.I. Friday's, the Hard Rock Cafe and Tony Roma's. Not surprisingly, much of the food at Taco Bell Grande is only vaguely authentic. Caesar salad is on the menu, and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colonel Sanders' March on China | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...longer did sweet meats soothe him. Instead, he took up a beggar’s bowl and walked the North Indian countryside asking those he encountered if they could spare some scraps of food for the Buddha. In the years to come, this wooden bowl would hold nothing fancier than parched rice and lentils. The Buddha’s diet had gone from magnificent to minimalist...

Author: By Vanashree Samant, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Buddhist's Delight | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

...cooking,” explains Chenwei Wu ’06, my other companion, who is well versed in Chinese home cooking. “But they are used so often that they are considered part of the common man’s food. Restaurants are expected to serve fancier dishes. The food here is much more like what we eat at home...

Author: By Vanashree Samant, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Buddhist's Delight | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

...cast toys in human roles makes a statement,” Carmichael wrote in the original proposal for the production: “Specifically, that humans are toys, that humans are made from stuff no fancier than clay or papier-mache, but because they are animate, because they are imbued with a life force, they therefore wield agency, they therefore propel themselves, they therefore are capable of great acts of cruelty and ambition as well as great acts of bravery and love...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Poor Puppet's Hour On Stage | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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