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...Pizza, that is. Harvard’s female social clubs struck the latest blow in their ongoing quest for devoted space on campus by filling the grade-C pizzeria one recent Monday night. The faux-tattooed curlicues emerging from the corners of their eyes—one would-be deity noted the adornments resembled those of a certain Egyptian goddess—screamed Chic...
...poulet rôti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint" for the faux-filet au beurre rouge. Betty Crocker...
...muse about this year. Everyone is having trouble predicting the Oscars—that gala of beauty and filmmaking brawn that will have the world talking for weeks in late winter about J. Lo’s Versace gown, which I predict this year will be daring combination of faux buffalo hide and a Bennifer t-shirt. The problem is, in 2004 (insert gasps, fainting, etc.), there are no front-runners. No Lord of the Rings. No American Beauty or biopics starring Russell Crowe. Some in the industry see this as a good thing, because it could allow...
...themselves that they have not in fact caused the death of cinema. Among these are Almodovar’s Bad Education, The Motorcycle Diaries, A Very Long Engagement, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic, Sideways, and Mike Nichols’ adaptation of the popular yet frightfully insipid, faux-edgy Patrick Marber stage play Closer...
...brutally frank and sometimes, frankly, brutal," these slick, concertina booklets offer an arch insider's advice about 10 Asian destinations?from the latest bars to offbeat sights and "shops and artisans that the average visitor would simply never find." Boxed sets of five guides come in white, black or faux snakeskin, and the individual booklets are small enough to be slipped in a pocket or hand luggage as required. Prices from $32.50. For more information, visit luxecityguides.com...