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...restaurant consultant and food columnist, Kafka stresses cooking in a microwave, not heating. She emphasizes dishes made from scratch, many of them traditional in origin if not in execution. However, one might argue with her overwrought prose and with many of her food preferences (mayonnaise on gefilte fish, garlic in Manhattan clam chowder, bottled spaghetti sauce). Kafka suggests the microwave for ridiculous purposes, such as preparing white sauce and melting butter. A more serious caveat: manufacturers, concerned about the danger of burns, disagree with Kafka's recommendation to deep fry in a microwave...
Since 1977, the strange fish-like structure called Ingalls Rink--home of the Elis--had cast a losing nex on the Crimson...
...stroll through the streets of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, the power base of Acting Party Chief Zhao Ziyang, offers a glimpse of just how potent the economic force of self-interest can be. The energetic proprietress of the "Freindship" restaurant points to fresh fish writhing in a bucket, trying to persuade passersby that her culinary skills outshine her grasp of English spelling. A street stall displaying posters of the rock group Wham! advertises a dazzling red-and-blue "American garment." Private traders without permanent stands spread out blankets with photos of movie stars, horoscope cards and plastic hair brushes...
...always to dissolve them as emblems of personality. The surfaces look as if they came via Philip Guston from Monet, picking up some of Giacomo Balla's futurist dissections of light particles along the way -- a sober flicker in which images flash and are gone like the sides of fish in dark, weedy water...
...Olympians' seven previous games against college teams are any indication, the Crimson will lose big. The U.S. Team is 7-0 against college opponents--which have included the likes of Hockey East powerhouses Boston College and Boston University--and have outscored them, 65-16. B.U. and goaltender Peter Fish came the closest to beating the U.S. squad, but fell 6-3. B.C. scored the most goals against the U.S.--four--but gave...