Word: finer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luck changes when a Clint Eastwood-esque stranger named Gun (Tsutomu Yamazaki) struts into her restaurant. She entreats him to teach her the finer points of noodle cooking. He consents, and puts her on a rigorous training regimen. He assembles, Seven Samurai-style, a group of gourmands to educate her in each different aspect of noodle cooking...
...delicacies. Food would then be referred to with its appropriate benefactor, such as the "Widener Beef Stew," "Weld Cod Scallops," or "Loeb Pu Pu platter." The dish owners might then take a special interest in the dish that bares their name, and offer funds for necessary improvements like even finer fine herbs on the chicken, or less congealed grease over the broccoli-cheese pasta...
What I did get was some of the finer music to be heard in Boston in awhile. Conductor Craig Smith prefers a richer, warmer Handel than my original-instrument tuned ears are accustomed to, but the quality was impeccable. Had Sellars and Smith done a little judicious paring on the score, my ears would have left totally elated instead of mildly exhausted...
...Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before an appreciative audience that included Teammate Jim McMahon. Says Balogh of her dancing Bear: "He was very gentle, very relaxed and very sensitive." But not without reservations about tackling the finer arts. "I didn't know if I'd want to run around in public with tights on," concedes Gault, who nevertheless wants "to be an actor on the big screen." Or at least the big stage. Two days after his terpsichorean debut, Gault played a cameo role in a Chicago production...
...degrees above absolute zero (-233 degreesC), extremely cold by our standards but warm enough by interstellar | standards that it led us to think this would be an interesting object to look at." Best of all, the object, designated IRAS 16293-2422, was relatively close, making it easier to see finer detail...