Word: fresca
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...Reagan's earlier incursion into Nicaragua having failed) and a yachtload of American homosexuals who threaten to blow up a Soviet supertanker in Cuba. But all that is mere backdrop for a mordant overview of Washington props and icons: a Cabinet Room table has buttons underneath marked ''Coke, Tab, Fresca, Pepsi, Coffee, Tea.'' When told that he is heading for the wrong aircraft, the President roars, ''Son, they're all my helicopters.'' At the end, ''Q'' Clearance dangles an intriguing question: Where did a onetime spinner of sea-horse operas learn to write comedy? Perhaps from his grandfather, Humorist Robert...
...gets us. There's a stripped-down masculinity to its shops, a friendly bluntness. It has good fried chicken too--moist but not greasy. And the Grilled Chicken Bowl mocks KFC's gloppy layered Rice Bowl: Pollo's is a mixture of chicken, beans, rice, cilantro, onions and salsa fresca over red rice that is one of the best fast-food dishes I've ever had. The restaurant doesn't quite understand what a biscuit is (yes, Pollo's is fluffy, but it's hard on the outside, without even a faux butteriness), and the fries are dry and bland...
...than runs on ethanol. Drive it onto Ohiri Field and spice up a bottle of Fresca with the contents of the gas tank...
...includes the Doggy-less Snoop Dogg, but he fails to liven up this limp Summer-jam. The track reminded me of Will Smith’s time-tested “Summertime,” but not as fresh. And warmed over Will Smith is like drinking flat diet Fresca...
...River’s patent superiority spoke for itself—but I have been studying in Hilles Library lately. This is the sort of peculiar habit you admit to with an abashed smile, like an affection for listening to ABBA records while binging on Sun Chips and Fresca. In a nostalgic age, it is the rare indulgence that is passé without having quite acquired the mass following to be retro...