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Normally people's lives do not flash before their eyes when they eat sashimi. But a meal of Japanese fugu, or puffer fish, is no everyday dining experience. Because the fish's internal organs contain the nerve poison tetrodotoxin, Japanese gourmets rely on expert chefs to remove the toxic entrails before serving. Yet for several Japanese diners each year, usually those who clean the fish themselves, a fugu supper is their last...
...Nobuyoshi Kuraoka, the proprietor of New York City's Nippon Restaurant. The puffer fish will be processed only by fugu chefs in the southern Japanese city of Shimonoseki, which has not lost a customer in 50 years. Japanese government officials will verify tetrodotoxin levels before the fugu is flash-frozen and flown to New York. Cost of a full- course fugu meal at Nippon Restaurant...
Krayer's goal was a flash of brilliance. The biggest moment in the biggest game of a very big season...
...camera pans over an array of shiny chrome and black exercise machines, a few big brawny biceps and rippling tummy muscles flash across the screen, and the sound of clanging metal plates in the background is punctuated by not a few ominous grunts and groans. Dressed in some space-age lace leotard, Cher, lying in a sexy position on an exercise machine, comes into full view and tells you, "Face it, if a good body came in a bottle, everyone would have...
...fresh talent: dazzling designers (like the Missonis), some fine hands (like Gianfranco Ferre) and some naughty boys (like Gianni Versace). But, in Armani, it produced just a | single world beater. Paris, on the other hand, can still offer a wider spectrum: sumptuous Saint Laurent, engaging Lagerfeld, generative Miyake, fast-flash Gaultier, ebullient Patrick Kelly. As ever, it is center stage, the arena on which designers want most to play, especially if they are coming on (like Gigli) or consolidating (like Valentino...