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Although most tourists are easy to pick out of a crowd--such staples of tourist gear like cameras and fanny packs instantly reveal their true nature--there are a few slippery ones who try to mask their true selves. Summer interns still adjusting to inside-the-beltway mores may fool other tourists, but locals can spot them for the alien creatures they...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, | Title: A Native's Guide to Tourist-Watching | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...Dinner Game not as funny as Veber's other films, it is confusingly serious, coating an un-funny plot with a problematic look at cruelty. The super-suave yuppie Bronchant (Thierry Lhermitte) regularly attends an "idiot's dinner," to which each member is challenged to invite the biggest fool he can find. The audience is caught between pitying Bronchant's "idiot," Pignon (Jacques Villeret, pictured) and laughing at his inability to comprehend even the simplest situations. To make matters worse, that laughter is rarely voluminous. When Pignon manages to confuse Bronchant's wife and mistress, leading to a calamity...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Farce Has Cruel Pretensions | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...those landmarks of luxury, Malibu, Santa Monica and Hollywood, are merely high class shopping centers with franchises that cater to the very rich. Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie, Pottery Barn and French Connection are just fancified version of their originals--TrueValue Hardware, Costco World Market and the Gap. You can't fool me Los Angeles, I know better. If this is where America is heading, count...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Into the Valley, Riding the Bus | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

Nearly sick of ice cream at this point, we venture along Mass. Ave. to the recently opened Toscanini's. The shop is decorated in a minimalist fashion, but don't let the sparse decor fool you; the ice cream is complex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the Perfect Scoop | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...Nearly sick of ice cream at this point, we venture along Mass. Ave. to the recently opened Toscanini's. The shop is decorated in a minimalist fashion, but don't let the sparse decor fool you; the ice cream is complex...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Square Offers Ice Cream Galore | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

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