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...also be deceptively complex to make, as Thompson's often dauntingly long recipes suggest. The one for rolled noodles with pork lists 30 ingredients, not including the chili sauce. The recipe for Thai cupcakes is, by my count, 1,059 words long. Another 278 words and you've got the Declaration of Independence. The book's detailed appendix reveals everything from how to choose, crack and eviscerate a coconut to tips on how to impart a subtle aroma to your satays (spoiler: apply coconut cream with a lemongrass-and-pandanus-leaf brush...
...course, Gainsbourg is lucky she's got her father's musical genes to fall back on. The path that many actresses follow from the movie set to recording studio is lined with misplaced ambitions and audible trauma - remember Lindsay Lohan's and Scarlett Johansson's disastrous efforts? But Gainsbourg has made the transition effortlessly. Her 2006 album 5:55, a collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, topped the French charts, with critics praising her as a true chanteuse. For her latest album IRM - which will be released on Jan. 26 in the U.S. and most of Europe - she teamed...
...mildly narcotic leaf that most of the country chews. Like many other Yemenis, they were strongly opposed to U.S. policy in the Middle East, and the political commentary flowed easily as they offered me perfume and sweets and begged me to show them "Western" dancing when the party got going...
...index "consists entirely of already released information and the Conference Board's forecasts," says Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs. (The leading-indicators index topped a similar survey by the Chicago Tribune in 2005, it turns out.) The monthly employment estimate put out by payroll-service firm ADP got two demerits, mainly because it doesn't do a great job of predicting the Labor Department employment numbers that are released two days later. And consumer-sentiment indexes, which offer the tantalizing prospect of predicting future spending patterns but often function more like an echo chamber, got the thumbs-down from...
...judgmental mother and other family craziness. As always, I deflected my sister's digs about my not being around more - and I didn't hear her rising desperation. It wasn't until my mom's funeral, watching my dad and sister cling to each other and weep, that I got a hint of their long ordeal - and how badly I'd screwed...