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Feeling independent? You don't have to follow the mix-and-match formula, if you order from another part of the menu. The Shrimp Lime Salad was not anything we had expected. Instead of fresh, unadulterated shrimp under a zesty citrus shower complemented by crisp green lettuce (this is how it's usually prepared in Asia,) it was suffocating in a coagulated spicy red paste. Abominable! Speaking of abominations, both the Pears and Prawns and the Pleasing Garlic, despite the clever appellations, should be chucked from the menu...
...white clan of song-and-dance people who own the riverboat theater are a bland and predictable lot, living through formula heartaches: economic ups and downs, marital tussles, the twinges of age, dreams of what might have been. By contrast, the mulatto singer Julie, who passes for white, has a much more distinct and provocative situation. She is a leading lady desired by every man. The fellow actor who marries her knows and accepts her ethnic identity -- a remarkable thing in the Deep South of the 1880s, yet never explored in the script. Her moments, superbly acted and sung...
...Drury coming through in the clutch--a familiar formula for three years of Harvard Crimson hockey...
...green light turned red, and the logic of eastward expansion became less obvious. In a September letter to alliance leaders, Yeltsin warned that expansion would be destabilizing and should not go forward. He proposed instead that NATO and Russia jointly guarantee the security of the states in between -- a formula that sounded uncomfortably close to the situation of East-West polarity that existed in the bad old days. "That was clearly the result of the Russian generals' pressure," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They were furious, and Yeltsin had no option...
...nation he leads usually cares more about Madonna than Mogadishu; its turn inward following the cold war's end coincides neatly with the President's passion for domestic affairs. In even the most arcane of those areas, Clinton's expertise is astonishing, and he long ago articulated his formula for success: "You do your homework, you chart clear goals, you make sure all the parts mesh, and then, even though you have to bend some to get stuff passed, you stick by the key pieces of your plan till you accomplish your goals." But consistency and constancy, the critical prerequisites...