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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among those strange things are finger-sized larvae of giant dragonflies, which are mixed with eggs as omelets in southern China, and Watson says he found it to be nutritious and "very tasty...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Discovering Cultures, One Bite at a Time | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...documentary's colorful moments, Galbraith recollects how he learned the hand signal (a two-finger wiggle) for "Stop that horseshit!" in meetings with American business leaders while he served as czar of domestic price controls during World...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Galbraith Film Debuts at ARCO | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...They didn't have any proof that she did it," said Robert Santos, an East Cambridge resident, in an interview yesterday. "Nobody saw her do it, and they didn't have...[finger] prints of her on the kid or anything to say she did it," he added...

Author: By Jamie H. Ginott and Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Cambridge Gropes For Normalcy After Woodward Decision | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...under control; there is a tendency to rise to indecent heights of piety. You don't simply argue the facts at hand, you rise in defense of godliness and decency and the First Amendment and oppressed peoples everywhere. Then, six weeks later, a heavy-set woman jabs her finger at you and accuses you of having filched $3.79 worth of gas and says it in a shrill voice so that a woman filling up her van at a nearby gas pump hears it and looks your way and thinks, "That poor man. I hope he gets some counseling before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GASGATE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis--as a protest against mining conditions in Nova Scotia (Margaret's Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL HAIL TO HELENA! | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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